Bug 17697

Summary:	Boot floppy+local ftp upgrade from 3.4/install from scratch of 4.0-RELEASE fails with MAKEDEV sig 11 - core dumped during 'Making devices' stage on a Seagate 4.3GB IDE drive
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	bsd-bug <bsd-bug>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description bsd-bug 2000-03-30 21:30:01 UTC

When installing either over the top of 3.4 or from scratch via local ftp everything is unpacked successfully. 'Making devices' pops up and after a minute or so comes up with 'MAKEDEV Returned non-zero result code'. Flipping to the shell which displays installation information shows that every 'MAKEDEV /dev/XXX' has failed with 'sig 11 - bus error - core dumped'.  Error occurs when using Seagate 4.3GB IDE disk, but installation succeeds when using an old Samsung 500MB IDE disk.

Fix: 

Installation worked on a Samsung 500MB IDE disk (approx 4 years old)
How-To-Repeat: Boot using kern.flp+mfsroot.flp floppies
Set to install from ftp server on private LAN
Select any install method (eg. Custom)
Select bin/man/catpages + any others of your choice
Partition and label drive using defaults
Commit
Distributions are unpacked
Begins making devices
Error: MAKEDEV returned non-zero result code
Flip to other shell (ALT-F2)

Comment 1 iedowse freebsd_committer

2001-07-10 17:46:34 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Is this still a problem with more recent releases?

Comment 2 bsd-bug 2001-07-10 19:33:40 UTC

Doesn't seem to be - I'm running 4.3-RELEASE on the same drive.  The
CPU has changed from Intel to Cyrix and back during that time and
still works.

Comment 3 iedowse freebsd_committer

2001-07-10 19:49:34 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed


Submitter reports that this has been fixed. Thanks!