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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:39:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AS 1200 Install Problems
Message-ID:  <15014.43674.685777.603431@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3AA678CA.000273.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
References:  <3AA678CA.000273.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca>

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Michael Richards writes:
 > 
 > FreeBSD Alpha SRM boot disk, Revision 1.0
 > (jkh@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Tue Nov 21 03:14:37 GMT 2000)
 > Memory: 262144 k
 > failed to send read to dka600.6.0.1.1
 > device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid
 > 
 > Anyone have any ideas?

Is the disk slow?  This happens with CDROMs too, so perhaps it has
something to do with the speed of the media.  I think it might have
something to do with our loader reading config files a byte at a
time (as witnessed on a netboot via tcpdump).

Drew



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