Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:33 -0700 From: Karol Krizka <kkrizka@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Install CD Message-ID: <ac342b0a05082220529e91259@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200508230525.20845@harrymail> References: <ac342b0a050822200965c38177@mail.gmail.com> <200508230525.20845@harrymail>
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On 8/22/05, Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 05:09 CEST schrieb Karol Krizka: > > Hi, > > I managed to come accross this old Compaq Proliant server and wanted > > to try it out for a personal webserver. Since I wanted to try out BSD, > > I decided to go with it as the operating system. My choice distro (or > > what do you call it?) was FreeBSD because I use Gentoo Linux and it's > > package system is a rip-off of FreeBSD's ports. I figured that would > > be the easiest transition. > > > > Now, I am not totally sure which model the server is, but I know that > > it has a 200Mhz cpu and 128 MB of RAM. Suprisingly after I booted it > > up (after several tries) I saw the WinXP bootlogo and soon was at the > > login screen. If it can run that, it can run almost anything! So I put > > the bootonly bsd cd that I downloaded a couple of days ago and got it > > to boot. That went well, exept there is a bit of a problem. The input > > is veeery slow. I press a down arrow and have to wait a minute for it > > to happen. There was no lag in the installed XP, so what might have > > brough about it in BSD? >=20 > Hmm, I can't see any reason for that symptom, have never heard before and > can't verify that, but I'd suggested to disable ACPI and see if that > helps. Often you get old hardware with broken ACPI BIOS implementations, > and I guess you won't find a standard compliant update for a 200Mhz > anything (guessing i386) CPU! > So try to set 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D1' in /boot/loader.conf > If that helps, please provide feedback, then probably your BIOS has to be > blacklisted, so nobody else has to run into the same problem. >=20 When the cd's boot loader asked me what to do, I pressed 1. I was thinking about disabling the ACPI too, but when I saw another option was "Enabled ACPI" I figured that it is disabled by default. I think it might be as scott said in the other email that i's reading from cdrom. It is a 52x cdrom, but I assume that the slow cpu has trouble with it no matter how fast it is. --=20 Cheers, Karol Krizka Fun Game-> http://www.hobowars.com/182837/
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