Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:26:57 +0800 From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> To: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebooting problem Message-ID: <40398F21.2030201@icare.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <4039887C.20104@stevenfettig.com> References: <40397AFD.8060407@icare.com.hk> <4039887C.20104@stevenfettig.com>
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>> Version 5.2 >> new installation >> >> On rebooting it hangs on >> ..... >> syncing disks, buffers remaining ... 5 5 >> >> done >> Uptime: 45m45s >> Shutting down ACPI >> Rebooting... >> Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. >> >> It hanged here and I have to make a 'hard reboot' by pressing 'reset' >> key >> >> Kindly advise is it the size of SWAP insufficient? If 'YES', kindly >> advise how to check it and increase its size. > > > I had this problem some time back with 5.0 on an older system of > mine. I was never able to resolve the problem, as it seemed to be a > EIDE controller related problem. I downgraded (to then) 4.7 and never > had any problems after that. Just today, however, as I was working on > upgrading to 5.2 on the same system, the hard drive and the controller > that had been problematic back then, failed. I just put in a new hard > drive and the system works fine (with a new install), so I am assuming > it may have been an issue with both controller and disk. I remember > at the time there was information on the mailing list about their > being problems with the EIDE controller I was using. You might want > to start by making sure that your controller hasn't caused anyone else > problems (via checking the mailing list archives). It might also be > that your hard drive is slowly failing. If it is a newer drive, I > would imagine that less likely, though. Someone else, here may have > better advice, however, as I don't know too much about the drivers > built in to the kernel for controllers. As I said, my short-term > solution was going back to a more stable version of FreeBSD... Hi Steve, Tks for your advice. This PC is for test only. The hard drive is a new ATA100 drive connected to a ATA Controller. I have another hard drive, mounted on a mobile rack, of similar model running Gentoo on this PC. It works without problem. I think downgrading to older version might solve this problem. I will finish testing this version first and then changing to verison 4.9 later to continue testing FreeBSD. B.R. Stephen
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