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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Is there any hope left?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.211524.17910@netcom.com>
- Organization: Messina Software
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:15:24 GMT
- Lines: 95
-
-
- I mailed the info below to MWC Support, but maybe someone else will be
- able to give me some advice (I really hope I am overlooking
- something). I have been rather unlucky in the installation and usage
- of Coherent so far, which I blamed on the flaky hardware. So, I just
- purchased a new computer, especially to run COH on it. Here are the
- specs:
-
- Motherboard Micronics Gemini 486/33 w/16 MB of memory
- BIOS Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS Plus Version 0.10 G17-2
- Disk Controller SCSI Adaptec 1542B
- Disk 340 MB SCSI Maxtor
- Video Oak 512 + VGA B&W monitor
- Keyboard Northgate Omni Key 101
-
- Since I wanted to be sure that it would work this time, I purchased
- (as you can see) all brand name components this time (at a
- considerable extra expense).
-
- This machine was to be used as a serial terminal server, so video was
- pretty much irrelevant.
-
- Yesterday and today I attempted 8 installations, all failed at various
- points. Here is the story of the 7 aborted installations last night:
-
- 1. While attempting to create a filesystem in the root partition (1):
-
- cr2=c399fce eax=ffc3a0d8 ebx=7 ecx=ffc3a0c8 edx=0 esi=ffc3a0c8
- edi=ffc3a0dc ebp=fffffc18 esp=fffffbe8 err #14 eip=ffc05c42 uesp=7
- cmd= efl=11097 sigcode=#11 User Trap
-
- 2. During copying files from the first diskette. I did not jot down
- the register dump.
-
- 3. During copying files from the first diskette:
-
- eax=fe70e8 ebx=ffc39cc8 ecx=ffc390e8 edx=0 esi=ffc390e8
- edi=ffc38f18 ebp=fffffac0 esp=fffffa90 cs=81 ds=21 es=13 fs=0 gs=0
- err #6 eip=ffc05bed uesp=ffc39cc8 cmd=cpdir efl=11002 sigcode=#14
- User Trap /nefl=41796 No Single Stepping the Kernel
-
- 42040f 1 2b3d7508 1 1 41ed 3 0
- 0 2a0 5a5 87b 0 0 0 0
- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2b3d7508
- 2a 75b0 7d 2a75b07d 0 560d01 0 2bsd74cb 0 0
-
- eax=1046 ebx=ffc40278 ecx=1246 edx=1246 esi=1246 edi=c ebp=fffffc20
- esp=fffffc04 cs=81 ds=21 es=13 ss=8f08 fs=0 gs=0 err #1
- eip=ffc0b2db uesp=ffc4026c cmd=cpdir efl=41696 bad kval ffc1f23c,
- 11(2)
-
- 4. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
-
- 5. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
-
- 6. While building the kernel. Floppy light was on for a while, the
- hard disk, then floppy, then newline was output to the screen, all
- disk activity stopped but floppy light was on. Machine was frozen.
-
- 7. Didn't get as far as in the previous 3. During the question "where
- do you want to mount it (regarding partition 2):
-
- eax=1c ebx=ffc394e8 ecx=21 e x=21 esi=ffc39394 edi=1286
- ebp=fffffc0c esp=fffffbe0 cs=81 ds=21 es=21 ss=13 fs=0 gs=0 err #6
- eip=ffc01fef ue p=1286 cmd=sh err #6 eip=ffc01fef uesp=1286 cmd=sh
- efl=11212 sigcode=#4 User Trap
-
- /etc/build: command "/bin/cho
- eax=0 ebx=4007d0 ecx=40115c edx=4 esi=0 edi=0 ebp=7ffffa2c
- esp=fffffce4 cs=b ds=13 es=13 ss=13 fs=0 gs=0 err #6 eip=7c21
- uesp=7ffffa1c cmd=build efl=11206 sigcode=a4 User Trap
-
- eax=ffc38ee4 ebx=4 ecx=ffc3900c edx=0 esi=ffc39004 e
-
- Today I tried the eight installation, this time without virtual
- consoles. It got to the point where it created the system and told me
- to take the floppy out. It started to throw registers on the screen
- and resetted computer. I proceeded with installation of remaining
- floppies after rebooting. While attempting to create passwords for
- user root I got message: "Cannot find passwd" "/etc/passwd: Command
- "passwd root" failed". Then, a moment later, while attempting to
- create a new user, I got another message, "Cannot find sort". Then,
- while uncompressing the dictionary, the whole machine froze (no drive
- lights of any kind, no register dump).
-
- Does anyone have any ideas??? I am beginning to give up on Coherent.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Tony
-
-