From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 17:25:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dervish.mail.pipex.net (dervish.mail.pipex.net [158.43.192.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 917BB37B59E for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 1323 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2000 01:25:36 -0000 Received: from userbm40.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.246) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2000 01:25:36 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01217; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 01:25:27 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 01:25:27 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Chandrashekar Chavan , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD-ROM worth $49. Message-ID: <20000227012526.C327@marder-1> References: <20000226223251.3309.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com> <20000226185911.G24331@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000226185911.G24331@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 06:59:11PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 06:59:11PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:32:51PM -0800, Chandrashekar Chavan wrote: > > Trying to install on 300Mz Pentium II, with ATA/EIDE > > I just installed a new Hard drive 20.2G with 7200rpm, > > Ultra ATA-66. > > > > Not sure if this should mess up the installation. > > I have FreeBSD Version of 2.2.7 of Aug 1998. > > > > When installation is about to begin, The kernel panics > > > > on Doing newsf -b 8192 0f 1024 /mnt/dev/rwd1s1f > > I get panic message as follows, immediately > > > > panic: ufs_lock : recursive lock not exptected, pid :1 > > and the system reboots in few seconds > > > > The FreeBDS Kernel does'nt recognize all of 20.2GB but > > it detects only 8GB potion of the hard drive. > > > > NOT SURE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS > > Most likely, the BIOS does not recognize all 20.2 GB and then lies to > the kernel about the disks. > Possibly, but also FreeBSD didn't have support for >8GB IDE disks until 2.2.8 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.8R/notes.html > You might consider a BIOS upgrade. Another workaround is to make a > slice (MSDOS partition) that is <=8 GB at the start of the disk to > boot from. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message