Booting safe mode actually works. Heck, I even got to use sysinstall. =} I shall try to replicate the stuff that gets set in beastie.4th and slap it into my loader.conf. Hopefully that should be enough to get me by.
Thanks! --- Lapo Nustrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried booting up in safe mode? > I have a similar issue running 5.3 STABLE on a > machine which runs fine > with 5.3 BETA7. > > Booting into safe mode works fine. Any other way, > and it gets ATAPI > errors or SCSI errors (if I take all ATAPI stuff out > of the kernel). > > Still trying to find the real source of the > problem... > > Good luck, > > Lapo > > > On Dec 7, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Crucio wrote: > > > I am unable to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on my > > Soekris net4801, which has a SanDisk Ultra II > 512MB > > Compact Flash card as a hard drive. The kernel > probes > > the drive just fine but when it comes time to > write or > > read from the drive, specifically in sysinstall, I > > get; > > > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > > LBA=0 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > > LBA=0 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > > LBA=0 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > > LBA=1 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > > > Then sysinstall says; > > > > "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!" > > > > To do this manually, with fdisk, disklabel and > newfs > > works up until the computer has rebooted and tries > to > > load the root filesystem. It hangs for a little > while > > then starts spitting out those READ_DMA errors and > > finally refuses to mount ad0s1a as root. > > > > Disabling DMA in loader.conf doesn't seem to have > any > > effect. > > > > Any ideas here would be much appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
