Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:42:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Mark Mathis <mark@earth.mat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 2.1.5 problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960723224028.366B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960723093806.9962A-100000@earth.mat.net>
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On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Mark Mathis wrote: > For a little background, here is how this started. We have been > running freebsd 2.0.5 on this machine. basicly that worked fine except > for one problem, when external cache was inabled the system would crash > in anything from 5 minutes to an hour. When external cache was disabled > the machine was rock solid and would run until we brought it down manually. > After doing some initail checking on the problem, I learned that > this is normaly due to bad memory, motherboard, etc.. I called my vendor > and bought another motherboard do that I could swap out each part until I > found the guilty party. The new motherboard ended up having the exact > same problems as the first one did. You don't know how to buy motherboards. :-) ASUS makes great MBs and are the "unofficial" MBs of FreeBSD. > At this point, 2.1.5R came out, and in reading the blurb on it I > noticed that it had a number of memory fixes in it so I decided to try > that and see if it would fix my problem. Heh heh heh..nope. It's still a hardware failure. It still has to be fixed by buying a higher quality motherboard. > I downloaded boot.flp and used dd to create an update disk, just > as I had done for version 2.0.5 which had worked fine with all the same > equipment. When I ran the program the machine booted up, did the normal > probing of the system, but as it went to run sysinstall the screen > scrolled up clearing the screen and then the cursor sat at the bottom > left of the screen and nothing happened from there. I thought the problem > might be with the pci svga card so I removed it and put in an isa svga > card. that had the exact same results. I then took the disk to an OLD > 386 machine that is a workstation here and booted up there to see if it > was just a bad disk. It worked like a champ, the menu came up with no > problems. I then took the vga card out of the workstation and put it in > the new box knowing that it was compatible with the program, I got the > same result, scroll up and cursor at the bottom. I even tried an old ttl > mono card, which still got the same result. At this point I do not think > it is the display card that is causing the problem. Did you try the recommended solution for fixing this problem, which is to disable ALL sio ports? The ATI problem has been fixed in the 2.1.5-R kernel by not including sio2 and sio3 by default, but some cards still react to being probed. Other than that...??? A bad floppy image perhaps? have you tried using the arrow keys? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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