Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3.1 corrupts disk during installation
Message-ID: <9300@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 21:13:25 GMT
References: <971@rna.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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...
-- 
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