Version 5.2
new installation
On rebooting it hangs on
.
syncing disks, buffers remaining ... 5 5
done
Uptime: 45m45s
Shutting down ACPI
Rebooting...
Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown.
It hanged here and I have to make a 'hard reboot' by pressing 'reset'
key
Kindly advise is it the size of SWAP insufficient? If 'YES', kindly
advise how to check it and increase its size.
I had this problem some time back with 5.0 on an older system of
mine. I was never able to resolve the problem, as it seemed to be a
EIDE controller related problem. I downgraded (to then) 4.7 and never
had any problems after that. Just today, however, as I was working on
upgrading to 5.2 on the same system, the hard drive and the controller
that had been problematic back then, failed. I just put in a new hard
drive and the system works fine (with a new install), so I am assuming
it may have been an issue with both controller and disk. I remember
at the time there was information on the mailing list about their
being problems with the EIDE controller I was using. You might want
to start by making sure that your controller hasn't caused anyone else
problems (via checking the mailing list archives). It might also be
that your hard drive is slowly failing. If it is a newer drive, I
would imagine that less likely, though. Someone else, here may have
better advice, however, as I don't know too much about the drivers
built in to the kernel for controllers. As I said, my short-term
solution was going back to a more stable version of FreeBSD...
Hi Steve,
Tks for your advice.
This PC is for test only. The hard drive is a new ATA100 drive
connected to a ATA Controller. I have another hard drive, mounted on a
mobile rack, of similar model running Gentoo on this PC. It works
without problem. I think downgrading to older version might solve this
problem. I will finish testing this version first and then changing to
verison 4.9 later to continue testing FreeBSD.
B.R.
Stephen
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