From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 23:11:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20325 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20278 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA11412; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:10:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Pitcher cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with install and seagate HD In-Reply-To: <34E8D81B.1C27124F@weirdness.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Keith Pitcher wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5-release and it appears that my HD is > acting up. I am using an adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card, scsi id 0 is my > CDROM, scsi ID 1 is the HD. It's a seagate Hawk 4XL 4.55 Gig HD, > ST34555N/W.It's finding both devices fine. I go through the novice > install and dedicate the entire disk to freeBSD. But during the install > it first gives an error that swap can not be used, then I get "panic: > Page fault" followed by the numbers 16 16 16 ..., or 256 256 256 ... and > it auto-reboots. Looking through some of the errors while it tries to > install, I get such things as the disk != slice. How much memory does this machine have? > I tried changing the geometry of the drive, but freeBSD did not like the > right values (6311/8/176) > I tried installing a few times, and the values it would automatically > select for the geometry varied each time. Don't touch the geometry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message