From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 29 12:42:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from qescan2.qgraph.com (QESCAN2.qgraph.com [206.158.124.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 878F737B407 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.200.29 by qescan2.qgraph.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Wed, 29 May 2002 14:41:36 -0500 Received: by sxsmtp2.qgraph.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC96D@waexch1.qgraph.com> From: "Schroeder, Aaron" To: 'Andrew Gallatin' , "Schroeder, Aaron" Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: DigitalServer 5305 install revisited... Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:41:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Per your suggestion, I set 'hw.physmem=512M' at the boot prompt. To no avail, so, I took 1.5GB of RAM out of the box and CPU1. It boots to the point of initializing the SCSI card (it has one of those combo SCSI/Network Cards), needless to say, BSD fails with a timeout style warning. I do not have the console output from that error, I can provide it if you wish. Anyway, I plug in a DAC960 and a DE500 NIC, create a raid, boot the server from CD. It boots to setup. I commence installing BSD, I create my filesystems, select my distribution set, select my media as the CD. The files start installing, and then setup hangs (Extracting bin into / directory, to be exact). I reset the machine, boot the CD, repeat said install procedure, but this time I select FTP as the media. Same thing, it gets to a certain percentage and dies. I have tried it about 6 times using each method, CD or Network. It fails/hangs in a different spot every time to further complicate this issue. Sometimes it gets to 17%, 23%, 49% was the highest it went. One thing I do notice is that the transfer speed shoots up real high, then trails off to nothing then craps out. Weird. I thought it was the internal SCSI bus of the server, that's what prompted me to try the FTP install, then that died. Well, any suggestions would be of great help to me. Maybe it's time for a new box. TIA, AJ Schroeder -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:38 AM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: 'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org' Subject: RE: DigitalServer 5305 install revisited... Schroeder, Aaron writes: > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [kernel]... > Entering kernel at 0xfffffc0000331460... > Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > fatal kernel trap: > > trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault) > a0 = 0x60 > a1 = 0x1 > a2 = 0x0 > pc = 0xfffffc00005b2a70 > ra = 0xfffffc00005fa0c8 > curproc = 0 This is much different that what you described before. Here, the PC is not null. The only thing that leeps to mind is that the size of your memory may be a problem (but one we might be able to fix once you get the machine installed & can get a backtrace). Try setting hw.physmem to 512MB. Boot the machine from the CD, then when you see this: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Hit the space bar, and wait for the prompt, and type 'set hw.physmem=512M' followed by 'boot' ok set hw.physmem=512M ok boot Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message