Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors that memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard :-), and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault, it's hard to diagnose the problem. One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:17:02 +0530 Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Provided that it has everything it needs in the kernel or set to load at boot time, it will work. You will also need to edit /etc/fstab if you are moving the location of the disk as well. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. Well if it errors out during that, I would be sure to try a different cable and test the drive in another box using smartmontools. I would also make sure I could successfully run a livecd to make sure it is not the cd drve. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors that memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard :-), and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* * Hope to get your advices soon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* * Hope to get your advices soon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
I am installing freebsd on this machine for the first time. Anyhow i have installed freebsd on another machine with out any problem which has AMD athlon 2.8 GHz, 256 MB DDR ram, 40 GB SEAGATE HDD. I just wanted to use this machine as my gateway machine which will not have any monitor or so connected to it. On 10/25/05, Nicholas Lozinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* Is this a fresh installation of BSD or something that has once worked? Proprietary BIOS and chipsets such as VIA on AMD boards, in my experience, have funny effects on BSD. For example, a Compaq M2000 with an AMD Sempron CPU will not install any FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD version onto it; all versions after 4.8 malfunction. I just want to give you a heads up as to why it might not be working, so you don't pull your hair out. I still haven't figured out my issue with my box here, but I've moved on. Nick L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault, it's hard to diagnose the problem. One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpNuvcO9kKgP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. I would like to setup the gateway and i want to use freebsd .. because of it's power which i am learning now . hope to get more guidance on the issue ... On 10/25/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault, it's hard to diagnose the problem. One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. Sometimes this is simply a problem with the CD being dirty or not being read correctly. This might also indicate your hardware is a little flaky. The AMD Athlons are fine processors, but the earlier AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs are a bit less reliable and some contained interesting hardware flaws (like with the L2 cache). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Thank you I will try it out and let you know the output :) But it is not a proper thing to do . anyhow will give it a try On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. Sometimes this is simply a problem with the CD being dirty or not being read correctly. This might also indicate your hardware is a little flaky. The AMD Athlons are fine processors, but the earlier AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs are a bit less reliable and some contained interesting hardware flaws (like with the L2 cache). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
