Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:19:27 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing 6.0-BETA3 Message-ID: <20050829191927.6694a969.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200508281326.j7SDQGfc073329@blue.virtual-estates.net> References: <200508281326.j7SDQGfc073329@blue.virtual-estates.net>
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:26:16 -0400 (EDT) "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: Hi, [re@ cc trimmed] > . 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. 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. > . Dangerously dedicated mode did not work -- things installed, > but the BIOS would not boot (Read Error). AFAIK the use of dangerously dedicated mode has been discouraged for some time. I don't see any real advantage of using it, and some BIOSes have problems booting from such disks. Just create a big slice covering the whole disk and go on. > . The third install succeeded with non-dangerous full disk and > separate file-systems and swap on ad0s1a, b, e, and d. Note the you only need one MS-DOS partition and you can put all your BSD partitions inside that one. Like I've said above I don't see any advantage in using the partition-less mode. > . World-rebuild is still running (with the attached make.conf) > -- about 8 hours already. WITNESS/INVARIANTS, probably, have > something to do with it too -- the disk is, obviously, not fast, > but the average load is firmly at 1.0 (or slightly above), > meaning that kernel keeps the CPU busy. 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. My experience with wi-fi on FreeBSD is limited, others surely can fill in the blanks. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1
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