Bug 1620 - kernel panic on mkfs, also on boot
Summary: kernel panic on mkfs, also on boot
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-03-19 01:11 UTC by hydrastis
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-06-30 17:36:49 UTC
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Description hydrastis 1999-03-19 01:11:44 UTC
I tried to install rh 5.2 on 3 machines recently.  they are
all dual-400mhz pentium ii's on asus motherboards, with 512
megs of ram, (first quantum, then) seagate scsi drives,
adaptec 2940, and 3com 905b.

I tried installing on each individual machine, and 2 of the
three had this problem:
	a. If you request that the swap partitions are checked for
bad blocks, it begins and then hangs at about 85% done on
the first swap partition.
	b. if you don't check bad blocks on swap parts, a message
comes up while mke2fs is running, and the system is halted.
the message is "kernel panic: free list corrupted".

	c.  on the machine that i know works, install rh5.2 to all
three hard drives in turn.  put the other 2 hard drives in
their machines.  the first time booting these hard drives in
the 2 questionable boxes i had no problems...
but any time after that i get "kernel panic: free list
corrupted" ***while it is fsck'ing one of the partitions***.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


------- Additional Comments From   03/22/99 15:11 -------
As I mentioned, I already tried swapping the drives out.  Today, i attempted installing with new scsi controller cards.
Install is still hanging(at least on mkswap, the one i've tested so far today).  when mkswap hangs, alt-f4 gives me the following message(repeated many times):
<4> Problem: block on freelist at 17fcbc90 isn't free.

Comment 1 Doug Ledford 1999-04-07 20:36:59 UTC
This problem should be fixed by the 5.1.12 or later version of the
aic7xxx driver.  Unfortunately, there isn't a Red Hat Linux 5.2 boot
disk or kernel that uses that driver version.  The latest one in a Red
Hat kernel is 5.1.11 in the 2.0.36-3 kernel rpm.  When the 5.1.15
aic7xxx driver has stabalized, then we can consider a boot disk based
upon that driver version.


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