FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM @server 325 type...

Solution #2

posted on May 27, 2006

Janice - usenet poster

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Hi,

I have problem installing world after cvsup.
make buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel went OK. I rebooted afterwards,
did mergemaster -p.

However installworld says:

btxld: No such file or directory

I searched freebsd mail list archives and didn't find any solution.
There was mentioned to go to btxld directory and make install clean.
However it didn't worked.

Any ideas?

Ganbold

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Solution #3

posted on May 27, 2006

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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

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Solution #4

posted on May 27, 2006

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Claus,

At 03:28 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote:

Yes, it is there. When it is booting and tried to run sshd it says error
similar to error when run netstat.

It says 8G in message log.

Probably some problem related to CPU or RAM, don't sure which one.

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

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Solution #5

posted on May 27, 2006

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Add sshd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and reboot.

How much RAM does FreeBSD say is installed?

Don't know with that one.

Allways a good idea to cvsup and build kernel and
world. This way you can optimize with -O2.

Claus

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Solution #6

posted on May 27, 2006

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Hi,

Thanks for all who helped me.

I followed Claus's and Scott's suggestion and reduced RAM size to 2GB and
installed FreeBSD successfully.
Afterwards I added hw.physmem=8G to /boot/loader.conf file and added RAM
back and rebooted.
It boots OK, however in the shell I can't run some commands. SSHd didn't
run, said some error.
For instance when I try to run netstat it says:

/libexec/ld.elf.so.1: netstat: Shared object has no run-time symbol table

What should I do? Any ideas? Should I reduce back RAM again and do cvsup to
RELENG_5 and
buildworld?

thanks,

Ganbold

At 09:21 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:

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Solution #7

posted on May 27, 2006

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As a test, could you reduce the amount of RAM in your system to 4GB or
less and see if the corruption continues?

Scott

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Solution #8

posted on May 27, 2006

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OK, I see. Quickfix, worked for me ;-) Remove as much
RAM so you're below 2 GB. I had problems installing
amd64 on a machine with 4 GB RAM.

Then add the physmem-line before you put back the RAM.

Claus

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Solution #9

posted on May 27, 2006

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I'm doing fresh installation. I tried to set hw.physmem=8G in loader prompt,
but system is behaving same, crashes after trying to copy files.
It recognizes 8GB RAM correctly.

Ganbold

At 09:06 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:

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Solution #10

posted on May 27, 2006

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I assume that you managed to install the amd64-port
and booted rebooted.

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Add the line hw.physmem=8G to the above mentioned
file.

Could you supply a dmesg, type dmesg at the console.

Claus

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Solution #11

posted on May 27, 2006

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Hi,

At 08:36 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:

You mean from boot prompt? I tried to boot both AMD and x86 installation
CD. FreeBSD 5.3-RC1-x86 can't recognize 8GB RAM.

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