From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com (smiley at zenzebra.mv.com) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:15:33 +0000 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: <20110318164944.4197965D3E@server.hemiola.co.uk> (rod@hemiola.co.uk's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:47:37 +0000") References: <86ipvhs0q9.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <92523386d00248deec230112db631be5@brasstown.quanstro.net> <868vwcbfc8.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <20110318164944.4197965D3E@server.hemiola.co.uk> Message-ID: <86ei634zzu.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd24a1de-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 rod at hemiola.co.uk writes: > I have seen similar symptoms. In the end, I narrowed my problems down > to a very particular combination of hard drive and laptop. Interesting. The system that's misbehaving is a laptop, as well. Its specs: IBM ThinkPad T23 ATA ST94813A, 78140160 * 512 byte sectors 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) erik quanstrom writes: > try a write test. also, you may want to check out how venti/fossil > have repartitioned their play areas. i believe i've seen them mess > up the size calculations. I wiped the entire Plan 9 partition with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda3", which completed without any errors. I then booted the install CD and reinstalled. (I'm getting pretty good at that ;) On the first boot, I let it sit unmolested. When the system load trailed off, the screen began filling with write errors, and the filesystem hung, just like the previous two install attempts. Here's a pastebin to a full transcript of the install: http://pastebin.com/cXpegrhH Details of the venti layout are in the transcript. Here are the console messages displayed by the installer: Fri Mar 18 21:11:24 Installation process started % fossil/fossil -c . /env/fossilconf prompt: % mount -c /srv/fossil /n/newfs fsys main create /active/adm adm sys d775 prompt: fsys main create /active/adm/users adm sys 664 prompt: uname upas :upas prompt: users -w nuser 6 len 96 prompt: fsys main create /active/dist sys sys d775 prompt: fsys main create /active/dist/replica sys sys d775 prompt: fsys main create /active/dist/replica/client sys sys d775 prompt: fsys main create /active/dist/replica/client/plan9.db sys sys 664 prompt: fsys main create /active/dist/replica/client/plan9.log sys sys a664 prompt: % 9660srv % mount /srv/9660 /n/distmedia /dev/sdD0/data Initializing Plan 9 FAT partition. % cp /n/newfs/386/9load /n/9fat/9load % cp /n/newfs/386/9pcf /n/9fat/9pcf Setting Plan 9 partition active. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: smiley at zenzebra.mv.com PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+