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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Is there any hope left?
- Message-ID: <9301051052.AA08505@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:56:45 GMT
- References: <9212272140.AA14795@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- What revision of Coherent do you have? Call! Tech support! at this point
- it is worth the call. Ed MWC Tech Support
-
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- >
- > 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
- >
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