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From: brezak@bitb.osf.org (John Brezak)
Subject: 386bsd 0.1 dist crashes on install
Message-ID: <1993Mar15.151935.23665@osf.org>
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Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 15:19:35 GMT
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I'm having a problem [re]installing 386bsd. I initially had 386bsd happily installed
on my SCSI hard-disk after a 330MB DOS partition leaving 71MB for 386BSD. This lasted
until Saturday. Then the disk would no longer fsck without panicing the kernel. It
didn't matter what kernel - dist, fixit or ref's Julian's scsi. [Maybe the blizzard
caused it and I can qualify for disaster relief :-)]

At that point I decided after exhausting alternatives to reinstall. So I wiped out
the partition and grabbed my dist disk. It booted and I typed "install". It made it
through the newfs and appeared to mount the disk. But then it crashed again when
it *appeared* to write to the disk.

Here is the crash info if anyone have a "dist" kernel with symbols.

trap type 19 code=0 eip=fe000b8c cs=8 eflags=246 cr2 8d30 cpl 0
panic: trap

sigh...

BTW- I tried turning off the cache and ram shadow - no difference.

Here is some vital info on my setup:

	386-40 8MB
	Adaptec 1542 SCSI
	
Dos/Windows works fine. Ran all available diagnostics on Adaptec including BIOS
based - all reports fine. Tried an init'ed disk still no luck.

Maybe it is the SCSI controller ? Suggestions ?

It would be nice to at least know where/how the kernel died. Can someone translate
the panic to a symbol and offset so I can at least investigate.

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