On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:29:02PM -0800, Ryan Low wrote:
> Thanks for the help, everyone. OK, so I boot into
> single-user mode and mount all the filesystems;
> everything works fine. I try running login from the
> single-user prompt, and it core dumps. After many
> repeated trials--both running it from the single-user
> prompt and letting the system run it after bootup--it
> seems to me that the problem is that login is
> core-dumping. Sometimes it works for a stretch, but
> always reverts to its old wily ways. Or sometimes
> 'panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted' is generated (I'm
> not that experienced tho, so I don't know if this is
> even related. Maybe just caused by having to
> force-reboot so many times? fsck seems to fix,
> anyhow). Could it just be that the data is bad on the
> cd from which I'm installing?

You can still verify the checksum on the CD to be sure.
But I suspect a hardware problem (bad RAM or something like this).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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