From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 21:27:01 2004 Return-Path: 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 BDB4216A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from popimap01.icare.priv (unknown [203.78.64.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A06043D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from satimis@icare.com.hk) Received: from smtpi02.icare.priv ([10.11.12.45]) by popimap01.icare.priv with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:26:57 +0800 Received: from icare.com.hk ([203.88.164.120]) by smtpi02.icare.priv with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:26:57 +0800 Message-ID: <40398F21.2030201@icare.com.hk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:26:57 +0800 From: Stephen Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steven N. Fettig" References: <40397AFD.8060407@icare.com.hk> <4039887C.20104@stevenfettig.com> In-Reply-To: <4039887C.20104@stevenfettig.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2004 05:26:57.0792 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7F44000:01C3F9CD] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebooting problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:27:01 -0000 >> 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