Re: Format I hing HD.

[Robin Cook <rcook@eisd.net>]

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.
> 
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