Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:04:07 -0500 From: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: 4.2 install hanging Message-ID: <10434107518.20010112030407@wpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <004101c07c33$5cacaad0$6100000a@MARK8> References: <1261509784.20010111163125@wpi.edu> <004101c07c33$5cacaad0$6100000a@MARK8>
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Hello Josh, Thursday, January 11, 2001, 8:02:39 PM, you wrote: JP> ----- Original Message ----- JP> From: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU> JP> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> JP> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:31 PM JP> Subject: 4.2 install hanging >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2, but my install keeps hanging. >> Usually it hangs when "copying bin to /", but once i got past that >> stage and it hung while "copying doc to /". I've noticed this issue >> on other releases and on different hardware. I dunno if I just have >> bad luck, or what have you. >> >> I've tried installing directly from the CD, and I've used the CD to >> boot up and try to install from FTP; both failed -- many times. >> >> In this case, I am installing to a 3Ware 5000 series Escalade >> controller, so I don't know if that would make a difference, though my >> understanding was with 4.2, there was full support for the card. >> >> Any suggestions? >> JP> What hardware are you installing on? Also, press F2 during the install to JP> get the debugging screen...I am pretty sure there will be an informative JP> error message there when it hangs. Knowing the error message will help us JP> figure out what the problem is. I'm assuming you meant Alt-F2. I had to do the entire installation procedure in this screen, because when the system locks up, it will not allow me to switch ttys. Here are the last five lines i have, from my cd install: bin/hostname bin/kill bin/ln /stand/cpio: bin/ln linked to bin/link bin/link then it locked up doing an install from ftp5.freebsd.org appears to have gotten me closer: /stand/cpio: sbin/mount_std linked to sbin/mount_procfs sbin/mount_procfs sbin/mout_umap sbin/mount_union sbin/mountd doing an install from ftp5.freebsd.org (ftp passive option) appears to have gotten me yet even closer: usr/include/g++/cerrno usr/include/g++/cfloat usr/include/g++/cisco646 usr/include/g++/climits usr/include/g++/clocale and then that locked up another attempt at the ftp passive option through ftp5.freebsd.org (seeing as that got me the furthest), yielded: usr/include/g++/set.h usr/include/g++/slist usr/include/g++/slist.h usr/include/g++/stack usr/include/g++/stack.h I did notice that two of the lights on my 3ware card were still lit, but there was no drive activity. perhaps the drivers have not progressed as well as we would have liked? and i know that the drives work as I was running a mandrake-7.0 system (customized kernel) with the 4 port card. It just seems that it is very random when the install all of a sudden quits. I must've tried a good 30 times already. i could understand the ftp option stalling a bit (though i was pumping out at least 220K/s), but then recovering. I don't know how to explain the cd's failure. So anyone have any suggestions now? If it is indeed the RAID card, should I try to install to another HDD and then copy the data over to the RAID? But i'm wondering if i'm having such instability issues now, what i may face in the future :( -- Best regards, Kevin mailto:kmenard@wpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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