Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:13:11 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: 4.2 install hanging Message-ID: <007201c07cb2$a2e9fb40$6100000a@MARK8> References: <1261509784.20010111163125@wpi.edu> <004101c07c33$5cacaad0$6100000a@MARK8> <10434107518.20010112030407@wpi.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:04 AM Subject: Re[2]: 4.2 install hanging > Hello Josh, > > Thursday, January 11, 2001, 8:02:39 PM, you wrote: > > > JP> ----- Original Message ----- > JP> From: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU> > JP> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > JP> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:31 PM > JP> Subject: 4.2 install hanging > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2, but my install keeps hanging. > >> Usually it hangs when "copying bin to /", but once i got past that > >> stage and it hung while "copying doc to /". I've noticed this issue > >> on other releases and on different hardware. I dunno if I just have > >> bad luck, or what have you. > >> > >> I've tried installing directly from the CD, and I've used the CD to > >> boot up and try to install from FTP; both failed -- many times. > >> > >> In this case, I am installing to a 3Ware 5000 series Escalade > >> controller, so I don't know if that would make a difference, though my > >> understanding was with 4.2, there was full support for the card. > >> > >> Any suggestions? > >> I was taking a look through the handbook and I don't see that controller as being supported. Just out of curiosity, I wonder where you saw that it was supported? Perhaps there is a better place to look than the handbook for hardware compatability that I don't know about. > > JP> What hardware are you installing on? Also, press F2 during the install to > JP> get the debugging screen...I am pretty sure there will be an informative > JP> error message there when it hangs. Knowing the error message will help us > JP> figure out what the problem is. > > I'm assuming you meant Alt-F2. I had to do the entire installation > procedure in this screen, because when the system locks up, it will > not allow me to switch ttys. > Yes....that is what I meant. Sorry. In this case I don't think that the error message is all that informative. > Here are the last five lines i have, from my cd install: > bin/hostname > bin/kill > bin/ln > /stand/cpio: bin/ln linked to bin/link > bin/link > > then it locked up > > doing an install from ftp5.freebsd.org appears to have gotten me > closer: > > /stand/cpio: sbin/mount_std linked to sbin/mount_procfs > sbin/mount_procfs > sbin/mout_umap > sbin/mount_union > sbin/mountd > > doing an install from ftp5.freebsd.org (ftp passive option) > appears to have gotten me yet even closer: > > usr/include/g++/cerrno > usr/include/g++/cfloat > usr/include/g++/cisco646 > usr/include/g++/climits > usr/include/g++/clocale > > and then that locked up > > another attempt at the ftp passive option through ftp5.freebsd.org > (seeing as that got me the furthest), yielded: > > usr/include/g++/set.h > usr/include/g++/slist > usr/include/g++/slist.h > usr/include/g++/stack > usr/include/g++/stack.h > > I did notice that two of the lights on my 3ware card were still lit, > but there was no drive activity. perhaps the drivers have not > progressed as well as we would have liked? and i know that the drives > work as I was running a mandrake-7.0 system (customized kernel) with > the 4 port card. It just seems that it is very random when the > install all of a sudden quits. I must've tried a good 30 times > already. i could understand the ftp option stalling a bit (though i > was pumping out at least 220K/s), but then recovering. I don't know > how to explain the cd's failure. > > So anyone have any suggestions now? If it is indeed the RAID card, > should I try to install to another HDD and then copy the data over to > the RAID? But i'm wondering if i'm having such instability issues > now, what i may face in the future :( > I don't know if I have the definitive answer for this, but I will tell you how I would proceed, and also give you the reasoning behind my suggestion. 1) I would attempt to install onto the same computer using the ftp site, but instead of using the RAID controller I would use a standard SCSI adapter that is known to be good under FreeBSD (perhaps the Adaptec 2940) 2) If no other SCSI controller is available, then I would try to install onto the same computer with an IDE drive. Reasoning: I don't think that you are having an issue with the installation medium, as you have tried two different ftp sites, and a cdrom. I don't think you are having an issue with your NIC, as the cdrom install failed as well. I have had a lot of trouble with FreeBSD and RAID controllers. I haven't had all that much luck with SCSI adapters, either. The RAID adapter is the first thing that I would suspect. Eliminating that from the picture will at least tell you if it is the problem. Hope this helps. Josh > -- > Best regards, > Kevin mailto:kmenard@wpi.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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