From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 15:54:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9367937BF57 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 15:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA25701; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:59:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:59:11 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Chandrashekar Chavan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD-ROM worth $49. Message-ID: <20000226185911.G24331@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000226223251.3309.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000226223251.3309.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com>; from cchavan@rocketmail.com on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:32:51PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:32:51PM -0800, Chandrashekar Chavan wrote: > Trying to install on 300Mz Pentium II, with ATA/EIDE > I just installed a new Hard drive 20.2G with 7200rpm, > Ultra ATA-66. > > Not sure if this should mess up the installation. > I have FreeBSD Version of 2.2.7 of Aug 1998. > > When installation is about to begin, The kernel panics > > on Doing newsf -b 8192 0f 1024 /mnt/dev/rwd1s1f > I get panic message as follows, immediately > > panic: ufs_lock : recursive lock not exptected, pid :1 > and the system reboots in few seconds > > The FreeBDS Kernel does'nt recognize all of 20.2GB but > it detects only 8GB potion of the hard drive. > > NOT SURE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS Most likely, the BIOS does not recognize all 20.2 GB and then lies to the kernel about the disks. You might consider a BIOS upgrade. Another workaround is to make a slice (MSDOS partition) that is <=8 GB at the start of the disk to boot from. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message