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From: dmac@athena.mit.edu (David McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: X11 ate my AUX partitions!
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.142923.8392@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 14:29:23 GMT
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I am new to aux, unix, and X. I have been trying to install aux and X on a 
MaxIIfx with a 3rd party Maxtor 200 mb hard disk. I have tried 
partitioning the disk with Silverlining 1.26 and with a beta copy of the 
manufacturer's software. The partitioning seems to be OK, but whenever I 
finally get X11 session running I get "can't load /dev/kmem" and Xload 
won't work. A few sessions later, X11 hangs, and when I reboot I cannot 
get access to aux: I get the message "panic: kernal memory error". The 
next time I reboot, I don't even get this far. I use fsck and esch and all 
these disk error messages appear. Kaput. What's the deal? So far my 
eschtology partions have been 3 and 4 mb, swap 18-20mb, mac os 60 mb, and 
the rest aux root&usr.
Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

David McCormick
MIT-EAPS
Bldg 54-1016
Cambridge, MA 02139
dmac@athena.mit.edu