From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 11:54:59 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 2201016A4DE for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17BB43D49 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@a1poweruser.com) Received: from laptop ([70.39.69.56]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060904115457.LHBO23453.mta11.adelphia.net@laptop>; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 07:54:57 -0400 From: "Bob" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?= , Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 07:54:52 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80609040346j61389e65u16a83b7401e09467@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Importance: Normal Cc: 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 11:54:59 -0000 I have same problem with my 10+ year old server boxes. First the boot bios scan has changed between 4.11 and 6.0. You can upgrade your old PC's bios. In most cases the mfg does not support the motherboard any more so chance of getting upgrade to burn the bios chip is most un-likely. You can get 3rd party replacement bio chip from www.umicore.com for around $80.00. Second problem is the size of the 5.2 and newer FreeBSD install kernel. It has gotten bigger and will not function properly on pre-2000 equipment. Solution is to take the hard drive from old PC and plug into newer box and do install. After base system install is completed just return hard drive to old pc and boot from it. Will work fine from that point on. This works fine on my 386 cpu 33 mhz server pc manufactured in 1994 and its currently running FreeBSD 6.1. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Widerĝe Andersen Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine 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 made 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 Widerĝe 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 was > 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=0 > ad1: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=13281487 > ad1: Timeout READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 > and so on... > > It ends with a mountroot> prompt. > > Any ideas what I can try? > > Thanks, > Andreas > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"