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From:      "Tomasz Luchowski" <zuntum@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE Disk/Controller dead?
Message-ID:  <19990714065259Z1456157-29854%2B64@urania.umcs.lublin.pl>
In-Reply-To: <3786E4DB.5B79418D@3-cities.com>

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> 
> Doug wrote:
> > 
> > Hey
> > I just got a 386 with 8mb of ram and a 100mb hard drive, ANd im trying
> > to stick a minimal freebsd install on it, and I boot the 3.2-release
> > kern.flp, then mfsroot.flp and then i config the kernel, then It probes
> > for my devices and freezes, I do ctrl+alt+F2 and I see this:
> 
> Add 4MB more of memory to it. They are telling people that it needs
> 12MB
> but the documentation hasn't caught up yet.
I don't believe not enought ram causes this problem.
I had 486/sx with only _4_ mb of ram and it wouldn't
boot generic kernel at all, I had to build smaller kernel
on the other machine first. machine having less RAM than needed
shouldn't boot at all. here it even found network adapters, /etc

> 
> Kent
> > 
> > DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
> > rm: not found
> > DEBUG: Foung a network device named ed0
> > DEBUG: Foung a network device named lp0
> > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0 (status
> > d0<busy,rdy,seekdone> error 0)
> > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0 (status
> > d2<busy,rdy,seekdone,index> error 0)
> > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0 (status
> > d0<busy,rdy,seekdone> error 0)
> > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0 (status
> > d2<busy,rdy,seekdone, index> error 0)
> > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0 (status
> > d2<busy,rdy,seekdone,index> error 0)
> > wd0: wdstart: wdcontrol returned nonzero, state = 1
> > 
> > It freezes forever, I left it sit for 15 hours and it still froze... I
> > Donthave the chance to run bad144 or anything, since It freezes when it
> > probes for the hardware.. Is there ANY way to fix this? Im desperate
> > here, any help will be greatly apreaciated, Thanks!
> > 
> > | Doug
> > | unix9.org admin
> > | shocking.com/~doemill/
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
> mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com
> http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html



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