From: egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf) Subject: SLS installation reboots system Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 20:34:03 GMT
An interesting problem with the new SLS (pl4 Xfree 1.2 ...)
I retrieved the new SLS distribution Sunday (Feb 21) and installed
it on my 486DX/33 16MB EISA box. It has generic IDE (hda), Adaptec 1740
(sda, not used for the initial installation) and the normal
floppies and stuff. DOS is on partition 1, Linux on Partition 2.
of the IDE drive. fdisk reports 63877 in partition 2.
When I boot A1, I 'mkfs /dev/hda2 63877' followed by 'doinstall /dev/hda2'
The installation disks are "type-4" 3-1/2 inch high density.
The installation disks were constructed by FTPing the SLS distribution
from tsx-11 onto my Sparcstation, and then copying to floppies mounted
on the Sparcstation's drive after formatting under DOS on the PC.
(copy and rawrite2'ing A1, dd'ing A2, cp to /mnt for the rest.)
If I select option 2 (installation of A, B, C) and then do a
'sysinstall -X11' after the reboot, everything installs correctly. If
I select option 3 (installation of A, B, C, X) the system reboots at
random places during installation of A2, A3, or A4. I have performed
about 4 attempts of the full install, and it reboots each time (though
at different places in the install) and have performed the A, B, C
installation 3 times (works each time) just to verify that the problem
is repeatable.
The same system was running SLS's previous pl2 release constructed in
the same way with no problems.
Any ideas on what differences between the two modes of installation
might be causing the behavior? I infer from other posts that others
are not having this problem.
Skip Egdorf
hwe@lanl.gov