Re: 10.0 - Installer newfs segfaults on SS2

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 00:01, vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 2, 2024, at 9:13 AM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Random likely non relevant thoughts.
> >
> > Does adding -d to the newfs command run without issues? (I'd expect
> > so, but probably worth a quick check).
> > Could test newfs on a smaller partition not starting at 0 (not
> > expecting any different behaviour)
> > Could test newfs_msdos instead (again, not expecting anything
> > different... but maybe).
> >
> > (A small voice in the back of my mind is saying "floating point", but
> > I think we're probably best off all ignoring it :)
>
> I should have mentioned this earlier… :/
>
> So this machine was purchased so I could extract the Weitek PowerUP to put in my IPX.  After that was successful, I figured “hey I’ll put the old 40mhz Weitek back in this SS2 and see if I can get it running nicely…”
>
> The cache is an AT&T chip, the FPU a TI.  Are there issues mixing and matching CPU/FPU/Cache in this platform ?
>
> I have another SS2 that I should have this weekend that looks to have LSI CPU + Cache and TI FPU.  So there’s always a total mainboard swap, but if there is any value in swapping these 3 chips around into a kosher arrangement please let me know.

OK, so there could potentially be "other issues" here :)

How much free space do you have on your bootable install image, can you run

dd if=/dev/zero of=temp bs=100k count=1
newfs -F temp

Out of curiosity, does the system run fine if you run it diskless
across NFS, or alternatively if you swap in an already installed disk
from the IPX or similar?

David