From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 7 13:52:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interchange.ca (ns.interchange.ca [216.126.79.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F8D37B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael@fastmail.ca) Received: by mail.interchange.ca (Fastmailer, from userid 555) id 95AD920CE; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:52:26 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="------------Boundary-00=_ERKU4LL4GENPJEDD7TH0" To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: AS 1200 Install Problems Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael Richards" X-Fastmail-IP: 24.43.130.237 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:52:26 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------Boundary-00=_ERKU4LL4GENPJEDD7TH0 Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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 device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid 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). The disk is slow, but not _that_ slow. It's an old HDD that I pulled from an AS6000 that's borked. Since I dd'd the image onto the hard drive, how can I just replace the boot loader? -Michael _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians --------------Boundary-00=_ERKU4LL4GENPJEDD7TH0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message