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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 22:21:17 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
From:      auto228677@hushmail.com
To:        "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Fw: Panic on install - page fault syncing discs - 4.1-release
Message-ID:  <200105092223.PAA20001@user8.hushmail.com>

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At Wed, 9 May 2001 02:58:04 +0100, "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> wrote:


>
>> 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?

Intel 430VX

>
>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

This is something I'm wanting to know :-) Still waiting for someone to explain
to me how to do this... 

I suspect if I can somehow use the wd driver to install... then use the 
ata driver
after the installation... things will work... 

>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
>
>
>
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