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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nwgw.infi.net!news.infi.net!usenet From: jmauney@nr.infi.net (Jim Mauney) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Running but mount_msdos, ppp and Syncing disks problems Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 19:07:00 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4k8sjv$6tv@nw002.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pa3dsp24.nr.infi.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello List, I'm up and running but somewhat "crippled". I have several outstanding problems that I haven't been able to solve. Problems are on a P-100/32MB/NCR SCSI II/HDs 1.2Gig and 1.0Gig. DOS and Linux on SD0 and FreeBSD 2.1 on SD1, partition 1 and Linux /usr/remote on partition 2. Booting all OSes from Lilo on SD0. First: During reboot/halt, expected "syncing disks ... 3 3 done" message replaced with "syncing disks ... 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... 1 (fills entire line) giving up" and then "Rebooting" which results in a dirty file system at each reboot. Second: Cannot mount MSDOS patition from sd0. I've tried mount_msdos /dev/sd0 /mnt and various combinations around that without success. Error msg = sd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn0 (sd0 bn 0; cn0 tn 0 sn 0) returned when using fdisk. /etc/sysconfig has device sd0 and drive is detected at boot time. fdisk Third: ppp returns error after dial command: "Cannot access modem" or equivalent. Occcasionally, it will work. I have a symbolic link from modem to /dev/cuaa1 (my modem is on DOS COM2 port) in /dev directory. Also have tun0 in /etc/netstart and /sys/i386/conf/MYHOST. Fourth: About 50% of my kernel makes fail with Signal errors 10 or 11 and kernel panic: vm_page_free freeing free page. Don't see either problem making Linux kernels. Haven't seen any other evidence of a memory problem in other DOS, Linux or FreeBSD activities. Any suggestions and advice on additional documents to read would be greatly appreciated. I've read FAQ, handbook, and info FreeBSD and linked web sites in addition to man pages. Jim <jmauney@nr.infi.net> Burlington Industries, Inc. Greensboro, NC 27410