panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called

[Malachi de Ælfweald]

brand new machine, brand new fresh harddrives. Only thing to ever attempt
touching them was FreeBSD 6-Beta5 bootonly.iso and disc1.iso

On 10/4/05, Olivier Gautherot <olivier at gautherot.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Malachi!
>
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 14:58, Malachi de Ælfweald wrote:
> > ok, changed the install options to do debugging
> > when it gives the panic, switched to the vt2
> > bare with me if it has a character off, the camera's screenshot was a
> > little blurry
> > [...]
> > *fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory*
> > /dev/ar0s1a: 5120.0MB (10485760 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size
> > 2048
> > using 20 cyclinder groups of 103.72MB, 11750 blks, 23552 inodes
> > super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
> >
> > and then it reboots
> > Mal
>
> I'm taking this thread in the middle so, please, bear with me if this was
> already
> suggested: did you run any hardware diags on your disk? Another problem
> I had at some point was a bugged partition table (edited it with Linux,
> FBSD,
> Win$ and BeOS - my advice on this: don't do it, just stick to one, always
> the
> same and the BSD one is a reliable one). I had to fully flush the disk to
> make
> it usable again. Remnants (ghosts) of partition are a nightmare.
>
> My cent worth
> --
> Olivier Gautherot
> olivier at gautherot.net
>