Re: Installing on Loongson2f causing sysinst segmentation fault

[manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:40 AM Jan Prunk <janprunk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Hello manphiz,
>
> I don't know the solution for your error, but you haven't mentioned the product. Is this a Lemote Yeeloong laptop or a similar one?

Yes, it's the Lemote Yeeloong laptop.

>
> Kind regards,
> Jan
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:52 PM manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install NetBSD onto my Loongson2f netbook and when
>> partitioning the disk sysinst will crash due to segmentation fault.
>> The exact error message looks like below:
>>
>> ```
>> [ 104.2026388] uid 0, pid 16, command sysinst, on /: file system full
>> [ 104.2397136] /: write failed, file system is full
>> [ 104.2597050] pid 16 (sysinst): user write of 139472@0x78594000 at
>> 730572 failed: 28
>> ```
>>
>> This error showed up whenever I tried to change the partition map and
>> mark the NetBSD partition active.  I have previously installed OpenBSD
>> on the Loongson2f netbook so I have one ext2 partition of 2G as boot
>> drive for the kernels and the rest of the disk (~158G) as OpenBSD file
>> system.  I have tried the following:
>> * Remove the OpenBSD file system and create a NetBSD fs.
>> * Directly change the OpenBSD fs to NetBSD fs.
>> * Remove everything and recreate the ext2 fs and NetBSD fs.
>> And all attempts ended up in sysinst segfault when trying to mark the
>> NetBSD partition active.  There was obviously enough space on my
>> disk, so I suspect this file system full error may be referring to the
>> installer ramfs?
>>
>> I've tried both the NetBSD 9.2-release and NetBSD daily snapshot but
>> both ended up in this error.  I actually also tried the 8.2 installer
>> and interestingly it worked flawlessly!  So I now have a working
>> NetBSD system.  I then tried to use the 9.2 installer to perform an
>> upgrade, but when trying to download the sets it ended in no disk
>> space error (again), which sounds related to the previous issue.
>>
>> As I don't have a working NetBSD system yet I cannot use sendbug with
>> system info, so do let me know if you need any more info.  Any fix or
>> workaround are appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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