Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:22:42 +0800 From: Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Helps! Installation hangs for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.1 Message-ID: <ea6713a21002030522p14eedd99pa8cc27b58fac682b@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear All, I have encountered in installing FreeBSD including version 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 and 5.1 on my new Dell laptop. Here is some info about the laptop. It came with Vista Home Basic. I have formatted the hard drive and installed XP on it. While doing so, I change the SATA option from AHCI to ATA, which may cause my following problem. When I tried to install various version of FreeBSD, installation hangs at different points. For 4.3 and 4.5, installation hangs at following line: *ppc0: parallel port not found* For 4.6 and 4.8, installation hangs at following line: *ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded* For 5.1, installation printed out something like: *:/ write failed, filesystem is full panic: Going nowhere without my init! syncing disks, buffer remaining ... 454 454 290 290 290.... giving up on 125 buffers* I have never encountered such problem since I have been playing with 4.3 for a while on other older computers. I am wondering if any one has similar experience and how it could be sovled. Thank all of you for your time to read my question. Millions of thanks to all you guys! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong
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