From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 13:22:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA632106566C for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shihang0506@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com (mail-pz0-f202.google.com [209.85.222.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE268FC16 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so1365596pzk.7 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:22:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=A2eQYo4nRZOyqL8ZaTUPUzsslgmhRaqIc0PdVwOIWM0=; b=NL+FZyLk0cDc0cuddDVEsNE3HLTB9P4UVoa11H/ItZgmvIEk5T3PXkW8vFgbcsNgUT SmWSjYghr5/3aUJ+Bh6aRQt/Ij6CdK8ayOWx4Y6MCy/K91Qi34Tl4cibJGSrUbo1Q02P MzVkchYFQsYwkcNp7GewmOTaJff4ddHyv0pKk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=gIincih6VcqPEB2Z9A4Tsk3DYfI7DDEqPdxUCRoNp/+kqBGa8FcKy+XJP3ButuVC+E h/MmzKx8ZtZHqzvZwQ4gw3UNW42jwBcZ1i8Cbtm7Me4QoYMvX1W00fCIGQISe92hvW+6 MrTGjvLNFSrVu/x+i/L1efMIPIbHuLpKUZ9/M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: shihang0506@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.2.15 with SMTP id 15mr1477284wfb.289.1265203362096; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:22:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:22:42 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7f5cdc91780b83aa Message-ID: From: Paul Shi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Helps! Installation hangs for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:42 -0000 Dear All, I have encountered in installing FreeBSD including version 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 and 5.1 on my new Dell laptop. Here is some info about the laptop. It came with Vista Home Basic. I have formatted the hard drive and installed XP on it. While doing so, I change the SATA option from AHCI to ATA, which may cause my following problem. When I tried to install various version of FreeBSD, installation hangs at different points. For 4.3 and 4.5, installation hangs at following line: *ppc0: parallel port not found* For 4.6 and 4.8, installation hangs at following line: *ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded* For 5.1, installation printed out something like: *:/ write failed, filesystem is full panic: Going nowhere without my init! syncing disks, buffer remaining ... 454 454 290 290 290.... giving up on 125 buffers* I have never encountered such problem since I have been playing with 4.3 for a while on other older computers. I am wondering if any one has similar experience and how it could be sovled. Thank all of you for your time to read my question. Millions of thanks to all you guys! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong