From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 17:35:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from public.wh.hb.cn (mail2.wh.hb.cn [202.103.0.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB6837B404 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from RavProxy ([61.183.74.135]) by public.wh.hb.cn (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with ESMTPA id <0GYA008GDF0WBM@public.wh.hb.cn> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:36:33 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:34:50 +0800 From: =?utf-8?B?5p2o5YuH5pm6?= Subject: Problem on installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000101c21ca9$4865d840$050710ac@heos.com> Organization: =?utf-8?B?5q2m5rGJ5Y2O5LmL5rSL5YWJ55S157O757uf5pyJ6ZmQ6LSj5Lu75YWs5Y+4?= MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 My computer's hardware are shown below:=20 CPU: Celeron 400MHz=20 Chipset: VIA VT82C691 + VT82C586B=20 BIOS: Award (1998)=20 Hard Disk: Maxtor 4D040H2 (40GB IDE)=20 Memory: 2*128MB SDRAM=20 At first, the BIOS couldn't recognize the new Maxtor Disk. I upgraded it = to 2001,=20 and it worked. I planned to partition the disk as follow:=20 Primary Partition 1: 7.2GB, FAT32, (ad0s1), Windows XP Pro=20 Primary Partition 2: 4.0GB, UFS, ad0s3, FreeBSD ad0s3a, 3840MB, mount as / ad0s3b, 256MB, swap Extended Partition: (ad0s2), Logical Disk 1 and 2: NTFS, Windows XP = Pro I setup Windows XP first, and install System Commander 7.04 as the boot = manager.=20 During the installation of FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, when the system is = making the=20 /dev/ad0s3a, I see warning messages from virtual terminal 2:=20 Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group = to 89.=20 Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (171) >=3D data blocks (64) in last = cylinder=20 group. This implies 2048 sector(s) can't be allocated.=20 ...=20 During the format process, I see following messages showing frequently:=20 ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=3D0 serv=3D0 - resetting=20 ata0: resetting devices ... done=20 After file system was made, the above messages still show intermittently = during the file copy process. Finally, system shows something like this and = reboot:=20 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode=20 fault virtual address =3D ...=20 fault code / supervisor write, page not present=20 instruction pointer =3D ...=20 stack pointer =3D ...=20 frame pointer =3D ...=20 code segment =3D ...=20 =3D ...=20 processor eflags =3D ...=20 current process =3D ...=20 interrupt mask =3D ...=20 trap number =3D 12=20 panic: page fault=20 Or something like this:=20 panic: syncing disk ...=20 I then change the disk slices as follow:=20 / =3D 128MB swap =3D 256MB /var =3D 384MB /tmp =3D 256MB /usr =3D every thing else But the system still don't work.=20 After several times of defeat, I try to install FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE = instead, which uses=20 wd driver for hard disks. Except the following warning message, nothing = went wrong -- the installation has been completely successful:=20 Warning: the last 2048 sector(s) can=C2=A1=C2=AFt be allocated.=20 What's the problem?=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message