From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 7 13:40:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA2937B71A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11107; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:40:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f27Ldcp26403; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:39:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15014.43674.685777.603431@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:39:38 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael Richards" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AS 1200 Install Problems In-Reply-To: <3AA678CA.000273.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca> References: <3AA678CA.000273.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message