From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 13:49:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB2E16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@nurserysupplies.com) Received: from netsrv.nurserysupplies.com (oh-65-40-136-8.sta.sprint-hsd.net [65.40.136.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9D143D53 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:49:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@nurserysupplies.com) Received: from ASSP (spamfilter.nurserysupplies.com [10.1.0.31]) by netsrv.nurserysupplies.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jB9DnF48057909 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:49:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve@nurserysupplies.com) Received: from 10.1.0.1 ([10.1.0.1] helo=exchpa.nurserysupplies.com) by ASSP ; 9 Dec 05 13:49:15 -0000 Received: by exchpa.nurserysupplies.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:49:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3DFFC9ABB222C5419AFA595765C2CD97FA5C9E@exchpa.nurserysupplies.com> From: "Brown, Steve" To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:49:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes 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: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:49:34 -0000 By the way, the issue was gone when I installed to one of the IDE drives. FreeBSD 6 must not like my SATA controller. At least it tries though. Red Hat 9 and Solaris 10 would not recongnize it at all during installation. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Brown, Steve Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet. However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the install. It seems completely random. Sometimes I get to where it's mostly configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long enough to get to that point. Once it locks up, it will not respond to any input. More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I tried the obvious - not loading any. After getting it booted up that way (which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it. I have also tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but it will still lock up. It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes or so. I have tried booting the "without ACPI" option and it won't even boot up that way due to some IRQ 19 error. Normally I see no real problems on the screen during bootup. I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs Shouldn't this system be fully supported? I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's the issue. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Steve