At 13:50 Uhr +0200 05.09.1998, Reinhard Spieker wrote:
>I tried to add a 3GB Quantum Fireball to a NetBSD system (IIci, 1.3 SBC
>#57). Installing the file system with Mkfs_1.45 works without any problems,
>all seems to be ok. But when i try to mount the hd, the mount command
>complains that the file system is not clean. So i wanted to use fsck to
>check (or repair) the file system. But the only thing happens is that fsck
>ends up in the debugger with the following msg:
>
>panic: pmap_alloc_pv: pgi_nfree inconsistant
>Stopped at _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6

I saw similar crashes for an IBM DCAS 4G drive and kernels >= 1.3; an 1.2G
kernel wouldn't crash. For drives this big, for unknown reasons you must
not exceed a total of seven (7) partitions on the disk.

See also the parallel "Installation problem" thread and PR#5174.

	hauke


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