From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 5:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C094737B406 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 05:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GY3WLH00.LQP; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:12:53 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:13:43 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7818893717.20020622141343@dds.nl> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?0e7TwtbH?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem on installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <000001c2198f$200f3340$050710ac@heos.com> References: <000001c2198f$200f3340$050710ac@heos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Dear ÑîÓÂÖÇ, Saturday, June 22, 2002, 3:50:01 AM, you wrote: Ñ> I have problems when installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. Ñ> My computer¡¯s hardware is shown below: Ñ> CPU: Celeron 400MHz Ñ> Chipset: VIA VT82C691 + VT82C586B Ñ> BIOS: Award (1998) Ñ> Hard Disk: Maxtor 4D040H2 (40GB IDE) Ñ> Memory: 2*128MB SDRAM Ñ> At first, the BIOS couldn't recognize the new Maxtor Disk. I upgraded it Ñ> to 2001, Ñ> and it worked. I planned to partition the disk as follow: Ñ> Primary Partition 1: 7.2GB, FAT32, (ad0s1), Windows XP Pro Ñ> Primary Partition 2: 4.0GB, UFS, ad0s3, FreeBSD Ñ> ad0s3a, 3840MB, mount as / Ñ> ad0s3b, 256MB, swap Ñ> Extended Partition: (ad0s2), Logical Disk 1 and 2: NTFS, Windows XP Ñ> Pro Ñ> I setup Windows XP first, and install System Commander 7.04 as the boot Ñ> manager. Ñ> During the installation of FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, when the system is Ñ> making the Ñ> /dev/ad0s3a, I see warning messages from virtual terminal 2: Ñ> Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group Ñ> to 89. Ñ> Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (171) >= data blocks (64) in last Ñ> cylinder Ñ> group. This implies 2048 sector(s) can¡¯t be allocated. Ñ> ... Ñ> During the format process, I see following messages showing frequently: Ñ> ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Ñ> ata0: resetting devices ... done Ñ> After file system was made, the above messages still show intermittently Ñ> during Ñ> the file copy process. Finally, system shows something like this and Ñ> reboot: Ñ> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Ñ> fault virtual address = ... Ñ> fault code / supervisor write, page not present Ñ> instruction pointer = ... Ñ> stack pointer = ... Ñ> frame pointer = ... Ñ> code segment = ... Ñ> = ... Ñ> processor eflags = ... Ñ> current process = ... Ñ> interrupt mask = ... Ñ> trap number = 12 Ñ> panic: page fault Ñ> Or something like this: Ñ> panic: syncing disk ... Ñ> After several times of defeat, I try to install FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Ñ> instead, which uses Ñ> wd driver for hard disks. Except the following warning message, nothing Ñ> went wrong Ñ> -- the installation has been completely successful: Ñ> Warning: the last 2048 sector(s) can¡¯t be allocated. Ñ> What¡¯s the problem with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE? Ñ> yyzox Ñ> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Ñ> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Your root is very large. Could you try making it so that: / = 128M swap /var = 256M /tmp = 256M /usr every thing else and see what happens. Pressing the a(uto) key during the label process will do this for you. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message