Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM _at_server 325 type 8835

Ganbold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1-amd64 on IBM _at_server 325 with 
> ServeRAID 6M.
> This server has dual AMD Opteron 2.1GHz and 8GB of RAM.
> 6 x 36GB Hard disk are configured as RAID5 through ServeRAID.
> 
> FreeBSD boots fine. But when it tries to copy files it fails saying 
> following error:
> 
> Panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
> cpuid = 0
> Uptime: 2m46s
> Cannot dump. No dump device defined
> 
> Logic hard disk is labeled as:
> 
> / - 1GB
> swap - 1GB
> /usr - 20GB
> /usr/local - 10GB
> /tmp - 2GB
> /var - 135GB
> 
> What should I do in this case? Any ideas?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Ganbold
> 

As a test, could you reduce the amount of RAM in your system to 4GB or
less and see if the corruption continues?

Scott