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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!not-for-mail From: cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu (Chris Fanning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1 problems Date: 23 Nov 1995 21:04:08 -0500 Organization: The Department of Preventive Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook Lines: 30 Message-ID: <49396o$q2n@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> References: <48sc17$560@interport.net> <490m2t$34l@krel.iea.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark Smith (msmith@comtch.iea.com) wrote: : David Tay (davidtay@interport.net) wrote: : : I just tried to install 2.1. The boot disk looks very polished. However, : : when I tried to prepare my disk (Quantum 4 gig) with a new file system, : : the system chokes, a "kernel panic" and my system restarts. : What is your kernel panic message? Is it an integer problem? If so, this : is PROBABLY because your system isn't seeing the right parameters for : your SCSI disk and one of the entries has a 0 in it. IF this is the case, : what I did was fired up DOS and used the SCSI card utilities to delete : the partions on the SCSI drive giving me problems. Then, during install, : make sure you have reasonable parameters entered in. I'll jump in here. This is probably the exact same problem that I experienced with 1104-SNAP. I had warnings about incorrect drive parameters and even if I entered the DOSish parameters I could still reliably kernel panic. Another person was also having the exact same problem. There is definitely a bug somewhere in the FreeBSD install. To recap, I was installing to a new/blank drive which wasn't the first physical hard disk. When I didn't get a kernel panic, newfs would complain that the 'a' partition wasn't available. I'm still on my first week of playing with FreeBSD, but I don't think disklabel is getting it's job done correctly with some configurations. This is with an NCR810 and 4GB Quantum. The other person was just installing to IDE. I don't think there's any bearing on the hardware, just the configuration involved. Chris