From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 09:08:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12116 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.sysnet.net.tw (mail.sysnet.net.tw [210.67.33.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12109 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:08:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chen6178@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (p210-67-40-102.ts.sysnet.net.tw [210.67.40.102]) by mail.sysnet.net.tw (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02047; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:08:03 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <36B0995B.D8EE04EC@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:07:39 +0800 From: Kevin Lo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interrupt timeouts (was: **URGENT** Hardware problem?!) References: <19990127165916.2223.qmail@hotmail.com> <19990128125711.I4819@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 8:59:16 -0800, Albert Chen wrote: > > Hi, FreeBSDers, > > > > I'm trying to use CDROM to install FreeBSD 2.2.8-REL on > > my best friend's machine. After selecting packages I wanna install, > > the screen displays this message: > > > > Doing newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rwd0s2a > > > > then the machie halts. > > This looks more like a hang to me. It's waiting for a response from > the disk. > > > I tried so many times, still the same :( > > FreeBSD works fine while booting, though. > > So I use my machine to install, everything's fine, and then I put > > his HD on his machine. I see weird messages while booting: > > > > wd0: interrupt timeout > > wd0: status 58 error 0 > > And this is confirming that it's not getting the response. > > > I login and type password, doing some commands, such as ls, df, > > then his machine shows "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" > > , and it reboots automatically, I don't know what's going on, > > would anyone tell me how to solve this issue, thank you very much! > > This could be a consequence of the previous problem, or it could > indicate memory problems--possibly a BIOS setting. > > > P.S. Because I have persuaded him to install FreeBSD :) > > But now I encounter this issue, if I can't solve it, > > he says he will probably never consider install FreeBSD :( > > My sympathies. FWIW, this happened to me a while back, pretty much > the same situation: I ended up having to install on another machine > and then transfer the disk. I only had limited time, and I only got > it sort of working; I couldn't get it to boot directly, so we used the > boot diskette to boot. > > I think the problem is either defective hardware (motherboard), or > incorrect settings. It's quite possible that the hardware is broken > by design, though it's becoming less common. All motherboard > manufacturers check their boards against Microsoft, so they normally > don't have any bugs which affect Microsoft, but other bugs may affect > FreeBSD, and unfortunately not many manufacturers check against > FreeBSD. > > I note the status says , indicating a DMA request > active. 2.2.8 doesn't support DMA, so maybe you'll be lucky if you go > into the BIOS menu and disable DMA (if this is possible). Another > alternative would be to install FreeBSD 3.0 and enable DMA there. Hi, Greg, I go into the BIOS menu and CAN'T disable DMA :( So as you say, I will install FreeBSD 3.0. Is anything I should care about upgrading 3.0 from 2.2.8-RELEASE? Thanks in advance, Albert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message