Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:20:44 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM @server 325 type 8835 Message-ID: <4177715C.5000108@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041021161406.02b32480@202.179.0.80> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041021084246.02b3eeb0@202.179.0.80> <20041021062850.71310.qmail@web14124.mail.yahoo.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20041021161406.02b32480@202.179.0.80>
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Ganbold wrote: > Claus, > > At 03:28 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote: > >> > I followed Claus's and Scott's suggestion and >> > reduced RAM size to 2GB and >> > installed FreeBSD successfully. >> > It boots OK, however in the shell I can't run some >> > commands. SSHd didn't >> > run, said some error. >> >> Add sshd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and reboot. > > > Yes, it is there. When it is booting and tried to run sshd it says error > similar to error when run netstat. > >> How much RAM does FreeBSD say is installed? > > > It says 8G in message log. > >> > For instance when I try to run netstat it says: >> > /libexec/ld.elf.so.1: netstat: Shared object has no >> > run-time symbol table >> >> Don't know with that one. > > > Probably some problem related to CPU or RAM, don't sure which one. > >> > RAM again and do cvsup to RELENG_5 and buildworld? >> >> Allways a good idea to cvsup and build kernel and >> world. This way you can optimize with -O2. > > > I will do that, however I have to install again FreeBSD on it, it is > broken again, when I was trying to remove/add RAM and boot. > I will let you know the result. > > Ganbold > > >> Claus > It's looking like the ATA driver cannot handle >4GB of RAM, period. Until this gets fixed (and it's being looked at right now), you'll need to either reduce the amount of RAM that you have or switch to a different controller. Scott
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