Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:37:15 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <20020816043716.4ACE7384@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020816033221193.AAA340@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20020816033221193.AAA340@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:32 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2002 at 13:21, FreeBSD Questions List boldly uttered:
> > On 14 Aug 2002 at 0:50, Irwan Hadi boldly uttered:
> > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > > > On 13 Aug 2002 at 19:43, Rick Hamell boldly uttered:
> > > > > > Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because
> > > > > > the install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it
> > > > > > gets some kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or
> > > > > > somesuch, and there appears to be plenty of disk space.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmm... may be a long shot in your case, but I've had the exact
> > > > > same problem. The ONLY thing I can trace it down to is an
> > > > > overloaded circuit in the electrical main. (Plus it's not grounded
> > > > > properly, Late 50's construction.)
> > > > > Anyways, I moved the computer into a different part of the house,
> > > > > finished the install up and moved it back in to my computer room.
> > > > > Works fine. I just can't power on more then 5 servers & a swtich at
> > > > > the same time in this room. :)
> > > >
> > > > Not particularly likely, given that I've had dozens of PC's through
> > > > here and never something like this, but thanks for the idea.
> > >
> > > My suggestion is check your CD-ROM, who created it ? Is it the cheap
> > > unbranded one or branded one like Sony, Creative ?
> > > I got bad experience with cheap unbranded CD-ROM drive, where I got
> > > exactly the same problem like you are experiencing right now.
> > > When I changed my CD-ROM Drive to Creative it works better.
> >
> > Latest info:
> >
> > Changed the CDROM to a Sony 52x unit, this one wouldn't even boot the
> > CD. Did some other tests, concluded had a bad CDR (reason I never
> > suspected this is I've never burned a single bad CDR on this setup)
> > so I re-downloaded the ISO and re-burned it.
> >
> > CD now boots OK, but when trying to install, during first set of
> > binaries (/bin) it reports "Write Failure on Transfer".
> >
> > To summarize, so far I've:
> >
> > - Replaced the HD
> > - Replaced the CDROM drive
> > - Reburned the ISO onto CDR
> > - Tried various settings in the IDE controller
> > - Used the DMA workaround as described in the 4.6 Errata
> >
> >
> > ..and it still fails.
> >
> > The only setting I haven't tried is using PIO for the CDROM rather
> > than EDMA. If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas.
> >
> > (FYI: the controller is detected as a "VIA 82C586 ATA33 Controller")
> >
> >
> > Phil
>
> Latest:
>
> Changed setting on IDE channel 2 from "EDMA" to "PIO4".
> Transfer rate during install of OS binaries went from
> 7KB/s --> 300-600KB/s. :-)
>
> But at the end, I get the message "Unable to copy /kernel into
> place!", just like before. :-(
Do you by any chance have your kernel securelevel set above -1?
If so change it to -1 and you should be able to chflags noschg the kernel
and move it. Or do it in single user mode.
Beech
>
> I'm getting ready to download 4.6.2, have there been any significant
> changes to the ATA code between 4.6.1-RC2 to 4.6.2?
>
>
> Phil
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