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From: allenm@sfu.ca (Allen Mar)
Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief.
Message-ID: <allenm.750120817@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca>
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 22:53:37 GMT
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fmayhar@acsc.com (Frank Mayhar) writes:

>_This_ time, I can't even get as far as I did with NetBSD.  The kc floppy
>boots and asks for the filesystem floppy, which I provide.  It then proceeds
>to go through its startup sequence.  It finally prints a "ISA strayintr 7"
>message, indicates that it's changing the root filesystem to fd0a, and then
>hangs forever.

I was able to install 1.0 GAMMA last weekend and saw the "ISA strayintr 7"
messages, and another message that indicated there were too many and that
logging of them was stopped.  But...it did install, and I ran it over the
weekend and for a couple of days until I had the EPSILON floppies & binaries
ready.

Well, now I can't get past the "cpio-floppy" install.  It starts loading
some files, and then "panic: bvgetp not free" happens.  This occurs in
different spots of the cpio-floppy phase.  And -- I never saw it happen
during the GAMMA install.

Help?

Allen Mar
allenm@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca