freebsd 6.0 beta1/ppc on emac 1250mhz: install atempt report

[gil verthaim]

gil verthaim wrote:

> Peter Grehan wrote:
>
>> Hi Gil,
>>
>>> *the installer copyed the files from the cd in a speed of aprrox 
>>> 120kps with some halts every few minutes (this was done on an apple 
>>> superdrive X4 wich a pioneer dvd-r/cdrw)
>>
>>
>>
>>  Does the speed ever get higher than this ? There are some parts of 
>> the installation where large amounts of directories with small files 
>> are being copied, so the throughput can be quite poor. However, when 
>> untarring the base distributions, it shouldn't be too bad: probably 
>> in the region of 800KBps.
>>
> i can recall one step where the speed was 600 kps +/- butt any other 
> part was abaout that speed even in reltily few larger chuncks
>
>>> *the installer treted the sun gem (GMAC) ethernet controller as an 
>>> unidetifaid controller and failed to set up networking
>>
>>
>>
>>  Known problem, will be fixed in the next 6.0-beta.
>>
>>> *when i booted the installed sysem the system failed to find the 
>>> system logger and paniced (couldt find a repport of this anywhare)
>>
>>
>>
>>  Did the system end up at the 'mountroot>' prompt on first boot ? If 
>> you hit return there it will panic. You have to manually enter the 
>> root partition e.g. "ufs:/dev/ad0s7".
>>
>>  If this is a different panic, would you be able to get a backtrace 
>> by typing 'trace' at the ddb prompt ?
>>
> it is a diffrent after the mountroot> promt when the system bootes 
> from the hard-drive normaly and then near the login promt it panics
>
after testing the problem again i see that it is syscons (the error more 
or less says "syscons: could not find  system loger and then panics) 
ralated but i dont know if the problem is happning from an error i made 
or from a system bug

>> later,
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>>
>
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