From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 7:31:59 2003 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 32CFB37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.hvcc.edu (mail.hvcc.edu [151.103.16.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D64043FB1 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lawyeray@hvcc.edu) Received: from hvcc.edu ([151.103.17.204]) by mail.hvcc.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h17FVr617320 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:31:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3E43D169.3070709@hvcc.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:31:53 -0500 From: "R. Scott Lawyer" Organization: Hudson Valley Community College User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Instaling on a Compaq Proliant with SmartArray 221 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a FreeBSD Newbie trying to install 5.0, but I will Install any Version that will work, on a Compaq Proliant, Dual 550 MHz with 512 MB RAM, Smart Array 221 RAID Controller with a RAID 5 Array (4 * 18.2GB) drives. The installation hangs after discovering the SCSI Tape Drive. With the following message: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 panic: general protection fault syncing disks, buffers remaining... panic: bdwrite: buffer is not busy Uptime: 20s What tricks can I use to get this installed? Any help is appreciated. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message