Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

[Andreas Widerøe Andersen]

I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot
CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked
perfect. No problems.

I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes made
to newer versions of FreeBSD.

Anyone know what I can do to get 6.1 up and running on this ancient machine?

Cheers,
Andreas

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On 9/4/06, Andreas Widerøe Andersen <wodfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8
> years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and was
> running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install.
>
> When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a
> lot of harddrive errors is when I boot in safe mode. I did this and
> installed the system. However, the same problems are there when I reboot
> from harddrive after the install (not in safe mode).
>
> Here are a few of the error messages I get:
>
> ad0: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=0
> ad1: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=13281487
> ad1: Timeout READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0
> and so on...
>
> It ends with a mountroot> prompt.
>
> Any ideas what I can try?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>