From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 21:37:41 2002 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 BCA2937B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9AD43E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ACE7384; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:37:16 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: pjklist@ekahuna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:37:15 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020816033221193.AAA340@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020816033221193.AAA340@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020816043716.4ACE7384@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:32 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > On 15 Aug 2002 at 13:21, FreeBSD Questions List boldly uttered: > > On 14 Aug 2002 at 0:50, Irwan Hadi boldly uttered: > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > > On 13 Aug 2002 at 19:43, Rick Hamell boldly uttered: > > > > > > Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because > > > > > > the install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it > > > > > > gets some kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or > > > > > > somesuch, and there appears to be plenty of disk space. > > > > > > > > > > Hmm... may be a long shot in your case, but I've had the exact > > > > > same problem. The ONLY thing I can trace it down to is an > > > > > overloaded circuit in the electrical main. (Plus it's not grounded > > > > > properly, Late 50's construction.) > > > > > Anyways, I moved the computer into a different part of the house, > > > > > finished the install up and moved it back in to my computer room. > > > > > Works fine. I just can't power on more then 5 servers & a swtich at > > > > > the same time in this room. :) > > > > > > > > Not particularly likely, given that I've had dozens of PC's through > > > > here and never something like this, but thanks for the idea. > > > > > > My suggestion is check your CD-ROM, who created it ? Is it the cheap > > > unbranded one or branded one like Sony, Creative ? > > > I got bad experience with cheap unbranded CD-ROM drive, where I got > > > exactly the same problem like you are experiencing right now. > > > When I changed my CD-ROM Drive to Creative it works better. > > > > Latest info: > > > > Changed the CDROM to a Sony 52x unit, this one wouldn't even boot the > > CD. Did some other tests, concluded had a bad CDR (reason I never > > suspected this is I've never burned a single bad CDR on this setup) > > so I re-downloaded the ISO and re-burned it. > > > > CD now boots OK, but when trying to install, during first set of > > binaries (/bin) it reports "Write Failure on Transfer". > > > > To summarize, so far I've: > > > > - Replaced the HD > > - Replaced the CDROM drive > > - Reburned the ISO onto CDR > > - Tried various settings in the IDE controller > > - Used the DMA workaround as described in the 4.6 Errata > > > > > > ..and it still fails. > > > > The only setting I haven't tried is using PIO for the CDROM rather > > than EDMA. If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas. > > > > (FYI: the controller is detected as a "VIA 82C586 ATA33 Controller") > > > > > > Phil > > Latest: > > Changed setting on IDE channel 2 from "EDMA" to "PIO4". > Transfer rate during install of OS binaries went from > 7KB/s --> 300-600KB/s. :-) > > But at the end, I get the message "Unable to copy /kernel into > place!", just like before. :-( Do you by any chance have your kernel securelevel set above -1? If so change it to -1 and you should be able to chflags noschg the kernel and move it. Or do it in single user mode. Beech > > I'm getting ready to download 4.6.2, have there been any significant > changes to the ATA code between 4.6.1-RC2 to 4.6.2? > > > Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message