Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:21:17 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <20020815202118674.AAA272@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020814065054.GD11763@phxby.com> References: <20020814055835918.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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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 -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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