From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 18:20:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA03812 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:20:15 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03793 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:19:50 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA25810; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:58:11 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509140128.KAA25810@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: fail to install freebsd2.0.5 To: qzhao@paul.rutgers.edu (Qingyan Zhao) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:56:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509131513.LAA25495@paul.rutgers.edu> from "Qingyan Zhao" at Sep 13, 95 11:13:49 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1139 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Qingyan Zhao stands accused of saying: > Yesterday, we also ran the BIOS ram test, we have 8M ram, all are good. You BIOS RAM test won't find the sort of problems that you are seeing. What you have looks _very_ much like a RAM timing problem. Reset your BIOS config to the defaults and try again; then try swapping in memory from another machine. FreeBSD pounds memory harder than _anything_ else I've seen. > last question: we are wondering what freebsd is trying to do after it > finished building up file systems on all partition, 'cause that is the point > of failure, it should give us useful hint. Lots of things; there are a ppile of new things happening at that point, which is as good a reason as any for something new to crop up. > qingyan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[