Found the problem... I don't know what I did but when I tried it again when it failed on the formating it gave a bunch of kmem_alloc: Bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=buffer_head) errors so started testing the memory and found a bad stick. It now works fine. Thanks.
On 10 Jul 2001 21:44:32 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:59:21PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote: > > I have a SparcStation 10. > > > > I am having problems formatting the the hard drive. > > > > I boot from the cd-rom (external). I then get to the point where it > > asks to partition the hard drive. > > > > I remove all existing partitions. > > > > Select S to create a Sun partition. I creates a Linux partition, a Linux > > Swap partition, and the Whole Drive Sun partition. > > > > I then delete the 2 linux partitions and create the ones that I need. > > Partition 1 - 1 gig for / > > Partition 2 - 128 Meg swap > > Partition 3 - Whole Disk Sun Partition > > Partition 4 - 1/2 of whats left for /usr > > Partition 5 - other 1/2 for /home > > > > It formats the swap and root with no problem but as soon as I try to > > format either of the last 2 partition I get a "Kernel Panic Free List > > Corrupted." > > Try not enabling the swap partition. See if that works. > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
