Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:38:48 -0800 From: Lapo Nustrini <lapo@seanet.com> To: crucio2004-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801 Message-ID: <0447397A-4940-11D9-83D7-000A958CDFF6@seanet.com> In-Reply-To: <20041208043103.24600.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041208043103.24600.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com>
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Have you tried booting up in safe mode? I have a similar issue running 5.3 STABLE on a machine which runs fine with 5.3 BETA7. Booting into safe mode works fine. Any other way, and it gets ATAPI errors or SCSI errors (if I take all ATAPI stuff out of the kernel). Still trying to find the real source of the problem... Good luck, Lapo On Dec 7, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Crucio wrote: > I am unable to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on my > Soekris net4801, which has a SanDisk Ultra II 512MB > Compact Flash card as a hard drive. The kernel probes > the drive just fine but when it comes time to write or > read from the drive, specifically in sysinstall, I > get; > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=0 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=0 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=0 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=1 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > Then sysinstall says; > > "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!" > > To do this manually, with fdisk, disklabel and newfs > works up until the computer has rebooted and tries to > load the root filesystem. It hangs for a little while > then starts spitting out those READ_DMA errors and > finally refuses to mount ad0s1a as root. > > Disabling DMA in loader.conf doesn't seem to have any > effect. > > Any ideas here would be much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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