From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 10:46:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4532D16A4E5 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wodfer@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D71B43D46 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wodfer@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so1183693nfc for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:46:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=IgdGaYjkq6VB6mld6K36WZY1QpMMCV+ziDBDgmNag/6YQHHl66i0j2jjJaZPC3wvGfbZlcehZWt5Q78Z4uIVsgrPhz7EPn4BuXxFBP89pN8Ys0JkAw0Y4BaNa4CcBRRxAut/21o1wgYMiU5ddif1zdvVBb7Egm1ystWU+kh5VbU= Received: by 10.48.48.18 with SMTP id v18mr6498659nfv; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.71.12 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 03:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <23ed14b80609040346j61389e65u16a83b7401e09467@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:46:54 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?=" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80609040132i17173867n5e1852917a3a4e73@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <23ed14b80609040132i17173867n5e1852917a3a4e73@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:46:57 -0000 I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked perfect. No problems. I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes mad= e to newer versions of FreeBSD. Anyone know what I can do to get 6.1 up and running on this ancient machine= ? Cheers, Andreas --- On 9/4/06, Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen wrote: > > I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8 > years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and w= as > running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install. > > When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a > lot of harddrive errors is when I boot in safe mode. I did this and > installed the system. However, the same problems are there when I reboot > from harddrive after the install (not in safe mode). > > Here are a few of the error messages I get: > > ad0: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=3D0 > ad1: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=3D13281487 > ad1: Timeout READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D0 > and so on... > > It ends with a mountroot> prompt. > > Any ideas what I can try? > > Thanks, > Andreas >