dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (01/11/90)
I'm having a problem installing Ultrix 3.1 on a MVAX II with RD53's. Everything installs fine. Then I reconfig the kernel for a few extra devices. I boot up single user -- still everything is fine. However going to multiuser corrupts the disk (somewhere after savecore is executed in /etc/rc). The corruption manifests as a complete scrambling of the root disk such that the disk driver reports requests for completely crazy block numbers. Note that Ultrix 3.0 did not have this problem (actually I am trying to use the same config file for 3.0 and 3.1). Any ideas ? Please email. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (01/12/90)
In article <971@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes: > > I boot up single user -- still everything is fine. However going to multiuser > corrupts the disk (somewhere after savecore is executed in /etc/rc). The > corruption manifests as a complete scrambling of the root disk such that > the disk driver reports requests for completely crazy block numbers. Check your partition table for the root device to make sure the swap area you have in your configuration file doesn't overlap any other partitions you are using. Also, make sure that you don't have the first swap patition defined in the config file listed in /etc/fstab as a swap area. Finally, if you have multiple swap areas, make sure that all of them are real and ready... If it's nothing obvious like this, it could be a memory problem or perhaps a botched 3.1 installation... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)