Re: IPv6 & PF

[Rodney Hopkins <rhopkins@sunflower.com>]

At 18:36 2/9/2002 -0700, x typed:
>I've been trying to to install oBSD on a Dell PowerEdge Server
>at work which has an AHA-2940/U2 scsi controller and after I have
>partitioned, formatted and picked which packages to install, I
>recieve this error while it is installing the packages:
>
>(random numbers that change every time)
>ALLOC ERROR
>PANIC: FFS_VALLOC: ALLOC
>SYNC DISKS: (random numbers that change everytime)
>
>Then it reboots so quickly as if embarassed that it has erred. It
>took me at least 7 reinstalls to get the above mesg.
>
>It varies between installing the first package at 11% or 66%, mocking
>my emotions.
>
>Any ideas why? Any inquiry into this matter is greatly appreciated.

I've bumped into this exact problem trying to install any version of 
OpenBSD later than 2.8 (i.e. 2.9 and 3.0 both have the problem) on a 
generic system I have with an Adaptec 2940 and a Quantum 3.2GB 
disk.  OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier install and run perfectly on this setup.  If 
I swap the Quantum for an IBM 9.1GB drive, both 2.9 and 3.0 install perfectly.

No one has been able to offer me any solutions for correcting this, nor 
exactly what the issue is beyond "some sort of weird firmware interaction" 
between that generation of firmware Quantum and the Adaptec.  I'm pretty 
sure something changed in the AHA driver between 2.8 and 2.9, but no one 
has verified that.

I'd be interested to hear if you too are attempting to install on a Quantum 
hard drive.  I'd also be curious to know if OpenBSD 2.7 or 2.8 installs 
fine on your machine.

Since I didn't want to waste a 9.1GB drive on a firewall box, I put a 
couple of old IDE drives I had lying around in my machine and it installs 
and works fine.  I'd still rather be using SCSI...  ;)

Good luck and if you manage to get this problem corrected, please let me know!

Rodney Hopkins
rhopkins@sunflower.com