Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Crucio
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

Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Crucio
I shall try this. Do you have any idea what differs for the IDE driver (I presume ATAng) when booting into safe mode? --- 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

Re: trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-08 Thread Lapo Nustrini
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

trouble installing 5.3 on soekris net4801

2004-12-07 Thread Crucio
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