I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked perfect. No problems.
I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes made to newer versions of FreeBSD. Anyone know what I can do to get 6.1 up and running on this ancient machine? Cheers, Andreas --- On 9/4/06, Andreas Widerøe Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8 years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and was running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install. When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a lot of harddrive errors is when I boot in safe mode. I did this and installed the system. However, the same problems are there when I reboot from harddrive after the install (not in safe mode). Here are a few of the error messages I get: ad0: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=0 ad1: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=13281487 ad1: Timeout READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 and so on... It ends with a mountroot> prompt. Any ideas what I can try? Thanks, Andreas
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