From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 08:22:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0587216A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5EF43D1D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:22:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9L8MlKa053542; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:22:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4177715C.5000108@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:20:44 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ganbold References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041021084246.02b3eeb0@202.179.0.80> <20041021062850.71310.qmail@web14124.mail.yahoo.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041021161406.02b32480@202.179.0.80> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041021161406.02b32480@202.179.0.80> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Claus Guttesen Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM @server 325 type 8835 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:22:19 -0000 Ganbold wrote: > Claus, > > At 03:28 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote: > >> > I followed Claus's and Scott's suggestion and >> > reduced RAM size to 2GB and >> > installed FreeBSD successfully. >> > It boots OK, however in the shell I can't run some >> > commands. SSHd didn't >> > run, said some error. >> >> Add sshd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and reboot. > > > Yes, it is there. When it is booting and tried to run sshd it says error > similar to error when run netstat. > >> How much RAM does FreeBSD say is installed? > > > It says 8G in message log. > >> > For instance when I try to run netstat it says: >> > /libexec/ld.elf.so.1: netstat: Shared object has no >> > run-time symbol table >> >> Don't know with that one. > > > Probably some problem related to CPU or RAM, don't sure which one. > >> > RAM again and do cvsup to RELENG_5 and buildworld? >> >> Allways a good idea to cvsup and build kernel and >> world. This way you can optimize with -O2. > > > I will do that, however I have to install again FreeBSD on it, it is > broken again, when I was trying to remove/add RAM and boot. > I will let you know the result. > > Ganbold > > >> Claus > It's looking like the ATA driver cannot handle >4GB of RAM, period. Until this gets fixed (and it's being looked at right now), you'll need to either reduce the amount of RAM that you have or switch to a different controller. Scott