From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 07:30:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA25775 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 07:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA25765 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 07:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00648 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:32:34 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa02908; 10 Aug 96 10:36 EDT Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5R Hang(s) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > Im trying 2.1.5R on a new machine and note that if it crashes, and the > > > > root partition needs to be fdisked, that it will hang. > > > > > > Don't know what to make of it. If you could send us some details (boot > > > logs, system configuration, etc) we might be able to hypothesize. We > > > don't have enough here to make a determination. > > > > Nothing in the logs - its a 166mHz pentium, the boot partition is on an > > EIDE, I also have 4 scsi drives on adaptec controllers. > > > > I just noted that if you slam it down to where it needs to do a fsck -p > > it hangs on the boot disk. > > It works fine on my P90 two-IDE system. So I don't quite know what > FreeBSD's problem is with your system. fsck may be corrupted or ????? > I figured it out. Apparently to run more than 64MB on this particular p166 one must supply mega wattage to the motherboard. I put a 300 watt power supply on just the mother board, another power supply for the drives and everything else and its fine. ARGH!