Subject: Re: disk panic on install
To: Jeff Cole <cynder@babcom.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/2000 20:18:11
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:09:12AM -0700, Jeff Cole wrote:
> I'm attempting to install NetBSD on a Sparc5. I dd'd the miniroot to my
> swap partition, and was able to boot off of it without a problem.
> 
> However, when it starts to go through and check things, I run into a
> problem. It checks to see where root dumps, gets the Max sync rate of sd0,
> reports the root file system type, and then panics on a bad dir error.

Looks like either the miniroot image is corrupted, or something wrote
to the swap partition after the miniroot was dd'd on it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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