Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:23:20 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing 6.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <200508301223.20626.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20050829191927.6694a969.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <200508281326.j7SDQGfc073329@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050829191927.6694a969.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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> > . Something is wrong with the ed-driver (in my case -- > > Kingston's KNE-PC2T, FCC ID L40WST200). Kernel reports > > being unable to do something with pccard1, then reports > > ed1: .... > > and hangs. I let it wait for an hour and it never continued > > booting. I'll try to investigate, when I'm done installing. > > The card worked just fine in a newer Pentium-II laptop under > > FreeBSD-5.x > > If the card is a 16bit pcmcia car make sure the bridge is set to 16bit. How do I do that? > I had a similar problem on an old Thinkpad when trying to use a 32bit > cardbus nic while the bridge was set to default to 16bit in the BIOS. Both -- the hanging ed1 and the working wi0 are 16bit 5volt cards, according to their labeling. Prior to the ed1-hang, there is a message about 32 cfe allocation failure. > I don't see any advantage in using the partition-less mode. Less layers, and (slightly) more diskspace -- just feels neater, I guess. But the BIOS would not boot, so out with it in this case. > I wouldn't blame WITNESS on this. Laptops, especially old ones, have > incredibly slow disks. The buildworld process is heavily i/o bounded, > my bet is on the disk subsystem. According to systat and top, the CPU is never idle -- as would've been the case, if the I/O were the limiting factor. The Sys-component of `systat -vm' was steadily above 50%. Now that I have a witness-less kernel, the builds are, indeed, I/O bound. -mi
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