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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!agora!davidg From: davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief. Message-ID: <CEo7n5.7wB@agora.rain.com> Date: 10 Oct 93 07:33:03 GMT Article-I.D.: agora.CEo7n5.7wB Organization: Open Communications Forum Lines: 23 >I saw the "ISA strayintr 7" messages in both GAMMA and EPSILON installs >but there was one difference in the 2 installs. I got GAMMA working Ok, >but EPSILON install during the "cpio-floppy" keeps aborting with a > >"panic: bvgetp not free" Surely you must mean: panic: bgetvp not free ??? This panic is caused by the system getting a new fs buffer and when it attempts to associate a vnode with it, it found that it already had a vnode associated. I've looked at all the relevent code and I don't see how this is possible. It appears that somehow a buffer is getting put onto the BQ_EMPTY queue (which should only happen at boot time) and the vnode pointer is non-zero indicating that the buffer isn't really free. ...A random guess at the cause: I'd say there is something wrong with your machine (memory/cache?) or the floppy image that you have is corrupt. -DG