HDD Woes

[Q]

Boot the system without preloading nvidia.ko and see if the system boots
ok.

If this fixes the problem then either upgrade your ports tree and
reinstall the x11/nvidia-driver, or apply this patch and reinstall it.

http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/nvidia-agp.diff

Seeya...Q

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:24, Dave and Julia Smith wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I've done searches of posts & google and had no luck, so here goes...
> Installing FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE goes smoothly, but when I reboot
> after having set things like my X Server up etc. I get the following:
> 
> pid 88(fsck_ufs), uid 0: exited on signal 8
> pid 89(fsck_ufs), uid 0: exited on signal 8
> 
> This happens and then it's followed by a machine lock. I've tried
> two different HDD's now, a Seagate 120gig and a Seagate 40gig.
> My Motherboard is a Soltek Golden Flame SL-75FRN2 which
> uses the nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset with 512 Megs DDR400 RAM.
> 
> If anyone knows the solution (i.e updating to 5.1), can you PLEASE let me
> know :)
> 
> Thanks Kindly,
>         Dave
> 
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