From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 18:58:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9877537B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 18:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from modem-15.silicon.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.13.15] helo=mark2) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14xJF1-0004TT-00; Wed, 09 May 2001 02:58:16 +0100 Message-ID: <019301c0d82b$7d5e2890$0400a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: , References: <200105090148.SAA14693@user8.hushmail.com> Subject: Re: Fw: Panic on install - page fault syncing discs - 4.1-release Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 02:58:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Installing 4.1-release FreeBSD... > >> At a seemingly random point while either extracting/installing the > >distribution, or > >while > >> the "Remaking all devices.. Please Wait!" message is on screen shortly > >thereafter, the > >> computer pauses for a fair time (probably around two to five minutes, > > not always the > >same > >> though) then displays the messages... > >> > >> panic: page fault syncing discs... 374 374 374 374 374 374 (repeat > >374 a total of 20 > >> times) > >> giving up on 328 buffers > >> Uptime: (whatever) > >> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds.... > >> > Once again, this appears similar to the problem I'm experiencing when installing > 4.2-RELEASE. Installing FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE works fine for me, probably > because of the wd driver. My error is almost identical to yours, with the > exception that instead of "page fault" I get "ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch". > I suspect it has something to do with the ata driver used in 4.x. Maybe > it's broken. I dunno... haven't received any feedback at all. This really > sucks. out of interest, what motherboard/chipset have you got? 4.1-release worked fine with my older QDI Legend V motherboard (until it exploded, that was nothing to do with FreeBSD though). Is there any way of substituting the ata driver for a different version, without downloading the complete CD ISO again? Would I be able to download the install floppies for an earlier version of FreeBSD then install the OS from those plus the 4.1-release CD? I've got a sneaking suspicion that if I kick the hard drive down to PIO only in freeBSD after it's installed, then it will work....of course, I could be wrong, but as I can't even get it to install there's not much I can do. Regards, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message