Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:38:00 +0800 From: =?gb2312?B?0e7TwtbH?= <yyzox@public.wh.hb.cn> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problem on installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <000001c21e55$342bbbd0$050710ac@heos.com>
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My computer's hardware are shown below:
CPU: Celeron 400MHz
Chipset: VIA VT82C691 + VT82C586B
BIOS: Award (1998)
Hard Disk: Maxtor 4D040H2 (40GB IDE)
Memory: 2*128MB SDRAM
At first, the BIOS couldn't recognize the new Maxtor Disk. I upgraded it
to 2001,
and it worked. I planned to partition the disk as follow:
Primary Partition 1: 7.2GB, FAT32 (running Windows XP Pro)
Primary Partition 2: 4.0GB, UFS (running FreeBSD)
/ = 128MB
swap = 256MB
/var = 384MB
/tmp = 256MB
/usr = every thing else
Extended Partition: Logical Disk 1 and 2: NTFS (for Windows XP Pro)
I setup Windows XP first, and install System Commander 7.04 as the boot
manager.
During the installation of FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, when the system is
making the
/dev/ad0s3a, I see warning messages from virtual terminal 2:
Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group
to 89.
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (171) >= data blocks (64) in last
cylinder
group. This implies 2048 sector(s) are unallocated.
During the format process, I see following messages showing frequently:
ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
ata0: resetting devices ... done
After file system was made, the above messages still show intermittently
during
the file copy process. Finally, system shows something like this and
reboot:
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = ...
fault code / supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = ...
stack pointer = ...
frame pointer = ...
code segment = ...
= ...
processor eflags = ...
current process = ...
interrupt mask = ...
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
Or something like this:
syncing disk ...
I changed the options of newfs to "-b 32768 -f 4096 -c 16". This time
the
"cylinders per group" warning message disappear, and the "timeout"
warnings went
out infrequetly, but the install process still can not finish. I tried
some other
values of block size, fragment size and cylinders/group, they all cannot
fix the
problem.
The same problem occurred when I tried to install FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT.
After
several times of defeat, I turned to FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, which uses wd
driver
for hard disks. Except the following warning message, nothing went wrong
-- the
installation has been completely successful:
Warning: the last 2048 sector(s) can't be allocated.
I sent this question to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, but no one can
resolve it.
What's the problem with FreeBSD versions that use the ata hard disk
driver?
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