Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:49:47 +0100 From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: marco <grappachecca@virgilio.it> Cc: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installation freebsd Message-ID: <20040305104947.GB6372@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <40485670.5090006@virgilio.it> References: <40485670.5090006@virgilio.it>
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marco [Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:29:04AM +0100]: > it is a acer 6680 with a mainboard of aopen model S58M > i'm searched on lists, google and i talked on irc with italian group of > freebsd but i don't found a solution > with 4.9 installation started but random stop during various step of > installation and give me an error like > sync disk or similar The exact name of the error you get is "kernel panic" (a few lines before "syncing disks"). "Syncing disks" is just a message, telling you, that the kernel is synchronizing in-memory disk cache with hard drives. If it is a laptop, try booting it with different apm / acpi settings. To tweak those settings, you should enter kernel configuration utility at boot time (when "booting kernel in 10 seconds" message shows up, type "boot -c", then "visual") - in 4.x. 5.x series has this done somewhat different. I don't know if that Acer PC of yours has known issues - but in general, if kernel panics occur randomly, this is propably a symptom of CPU overheating - or bad random-access memory (RAM) chips. You can test your RAM using free software from http://memtest86.com (please note, that you should run this test at least for several hours if it doesn't break at once - some RAM chips show errors only when they worked for a some time, so their temperature is higher, than normal). Also, BIOS RAM timings matter in this case - if you can change it, lower it a bit. HTH, -- mp
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