i'll try getting more ram although i'm not sure i'll find edoram that easily here. i know i have 32MB more ram somewhere in my closet, will add that too.
thanks sharad birmiwal On 7/28/05, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:17:59PM +0530, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: > >hi all > >i'm new to OpenBSD. i've worked on linux but wanted to try OpenBSD for > >a test firewall and file server that i have to build. > >i'm using a Pentium-1 (133 Mhz) box with 16 MB ram. i downloaded the > >iso file and all the packages for version 3.7. > >during installation, in the last step when it creates the devices in > >/dev, the process seg faulted. i still continued and tried booting the > >systen and it didn't work. > >so i booted from the CD again and found the MAKEDEV script. i ran > >'./MAKEDEV all' and it segfaulted again. so i manually created all the > >nodes as './MAKEDEV ramdisk', 'std', 'local' etc. and then the system > >seemed to work. > >what could be the reason for this because when i install any package > >with pkg_add, it always segfaults. could they be related? thing is i'm > >here now. > > Bad disk? Bad memory? Bad other hardware component? > > >another problem that has come up is that i had moved this server to a > >new location (several hundreds of kilometer away) and now the system > >crashes to a ddb> prompt usually within 30 minutes of booting. any > >ideas? i can make out it's to debug the system? could it be a problem > >with the ram or hdd? i can't make out anything from the message. the > >error says there was some problem doing a mov instruction. any > >advice?? > >is there something else i should add? > > Looks very strongly like hardware defects. Perhaps also old flakey > solder joints on the mainboard, could be nearly anything. Perhaps even > the cable between mainboard/controller and hdd. > > Some cheap thing to try is removing all plugs and replugging them, > same for sockets or similar, as the contacts can often be a bit > corroded, and unplugging and re-plugging them may often rub off > some of the corroded metal, making the contact more secure again. > > >thanks > >sharad birmiwal > >india > > Kind regards, > > Hannah.
