Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM _at_server 325 type 8835

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:20:44 -0600
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
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 06:22:19 UTC

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