Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:17:57 +0100 From: Ben Koopmanschap <koopmanschap@home.nl> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: power off needed after install FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <20040131141757.666a84f3@topjaklont.mydomain.org>
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Hello fbsd_user and all the other people! Yesterday I changed the connection of my hard disk to the primary controller. First it was connected as "Cable Select" (I thought it was "slave" but after opening my box it appeared to be connected as CS), so I changed the jumper setting of my Seagate Barracuda (80 GB) and after that it was recognized as "master" by my BIOS. By the way, I have a Intel Motherboard D845GEBV2 based Pentium 4. After this Sysinstall was indeed able to slice up and partitioning my hard disk, so your earlier advice was very helpful! Thanks again, because yesterday I succeeded to install FreeBSD 4.9 on my Pentium 4, which I consider to be a historical moment! Hurray, now I am a fully member of the FreeBSD community too! :) By the way, I did a very basic install, yet without X and the other compontents, but anyway the install procedure went without any problems! But... and now the story is going to be a little scary... ... after the installation I rebooted my PC instead of turning off the power first! A few hours later I concluded that not powering off my PC had severe consequences. I started my Linux From Scratch (same hard disk) which has become very unstable in X. I never had any problems with my Linux, but now X (and so KDE) was going down the whole time. First I thought it had to do with swapping my hard disk from CS to master (I installed Linux on my hard disk when it was CS), but I couldn't find any configuration errors or something. At that moment I decided to recompile my kernel, I couldn't start "make menuconfig" either, because it was complaining that it couldn't find ncurses (which was ridiculous, of course I installed ncurses!;). From that moment I started to fear of any hardware problems! Well, then I booted my PC with my Knoppix 3.2 live-CD and... yes! Also then X was very unstable! It simply stopped working. Finally I tried the install CD-ROM of Red Hat 9 and there even Anaconda (which works with X) wouldn't start and was complaining of certain 'cpio'-errors. I never had these problems before! On my other PC I googled and read a newsgroup posting about somebody who had installed FreeBSD on a Dell PC with the same motherboard. He got a reply of another guy who was saying that he had the same problem, but after a few days the problem was suddenly gone. "Maybe the PC had to get used to FreeBSD", he said something like that. I had to laugh first, but after a few hours of wondering and googling, I decided to turn my Pentium 4 off for five minutes... And you can believe it or not... but after turning on my PC again and having started Linux From Scratch, all the problems were indeed gone! At the moment I type this message in LFS and X didn't stop yet!;) Even rebooting (without turning off the power) in FreeBSD and then in LFS again, will not cause anu problems anymore! I am very satisfied till now of course, but I am very curious if anybody ever had this kind of the problem after installing FreeBSD too? Anyway, many thanks to you for your support!! Kindly regards, Ben Koopmanschap
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