Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5R Hang(s) Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960810103459.431F-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960809132617.219A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > Im trying 2.1.5R on a new machine and note that if it crashes, and the > > > > root partition needs to be fdisked, that it will hang. > > > > > > Don't know what to make of it. If you could send us some details (boot > > > logs, system configuration, etc) we might be able to hypothesize. We > > > don't have enough here to make a determination. > > > > Nothing in the logs - its a 166mHz pentium, the boot partition is on an > > EIDE, I also have 4 scsi drives on adaptec controllers. > > > > I just noted that if you slam it down to where it needs to do a fsck -p > > it hangs on the boot disk. > > It works fine on my P90 two-IDE system. So I don't quite know what > FreeBSD's problem is with your system. fsck may be corrupted or ????? > I figured it out. Apparently to run more than 64MB on this particular p166 one must supply mega wattage to the motherboard. I put a 300 watt power supply on just the mother board, another power supply for the drives and everything else and its fine. ARGH!
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