Hello! On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:17:59PM +0530, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: >hi all >i'm new to OpenBSD. i've worked on linux but wanted to try OpenBSD for >a test firewall and file server that i have to build. >i'm using a Pentium-1 (133 Mhz) box with 16 MB ram. i downloaded the >iso file and all the packages for version 3.7. >during installation, in the last step when it creates the devices in >/dev, the process seg faulted. i still continued and tried booting the >systen and it didn't work. >so i booted from the CD again and found the MAKEDEV script. i ran >'./MAKEDEV all' and it segfaulted again. so i manually created all the >nodes as './MAKEDEV ramdisk', 'std', 'local' etc. and then the system >seemed to work. >what could be the reason for this because when i install any package >with pkg_add, it always segfaults. could they be related? thing is i'm >here now.
Bad disk? Bad memory? Bad other hardware component? >another problem that has come up is that i had moved this server to a >new location (several hundreds of kilometer away) and now the system >crashes to a ddb> prompt usually within 30 minutes of booting. any >ideas? i can make out it's to debug the system? could it be a problem >with the ram or hdd? i can't make out anything from the message. the >error says there was some problem doing a mov instruction. any >advice?? >is there something else i should add? Looks very strongly like hardware defects. Perhaps also old flakey solder joints on the mainboard, could be nearly anything. Perhaps even the cable between mainboard/controller and hdd. Some cheap thing to try is removing all plugs and replugging them, same for sockets or similar, as the contacts can often be a bit corroded, and unplugging and re-plugging them may often rub off some of the corroded metal, making the contact more secure again. >thanks >sharad birmiwal >india Kind regards, Hannah.
