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From: mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us (Mason Loring Bliss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Help with 1.2? (Mac)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:30:00 -0500
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Hi! Yesterday I repartitioned an old SCSI drive into a root partition and a
swap partition, ran mkfs to get the beastie ready, and proceeded to install
1.2 and the GENERIC-9 kernel. (I'm running on a Quadra 610, so I need the
newer driver.)
I get a lot of random segmentation faults once I've booted up, and I have
other strange problems. For example, if I try to edit a file with vi, and
try to save with ZZ, I get an error message, and then, for some
inexplicable reason, the directory in which the file I was editing /
creating resides no longer shows itself when I look inside with ls.
Also, and perhaps more importantly, whenever I try to boot, fsck finds
problems of various sorts. When the boot stops for me to run fsck manually,
it tells me that it can't write to several blocks.
Is it possible that mkfs is uncovering bad blocks that would otherwise go
unnoticed? Where should I go from here? I'm relatively new to system
administration, but I'm fairly certain that I'm not doing anything wrong. I
partition the drive with Apple HD SC Setup, run mkfs on the root partition,
run Installer 1.1 to copy over the base, etc, comp, man, nofpu, and
GENERIC-9 packages, and then boot. (Installer 1.1a crashes on me for some
reason.)
I'm going to look through the available mailing lists to see if there's
anything appropriate, but I thought I'd start here.
Thanks in advance for any help given.
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