Brian, > I've seen this before. On old HP gear. Is your HP? Only FreeBSD would > run on the system. NetBSD/OpenBSD dead in the water. Some obscure bug > when the I/O went up (Symbios SCSI). > > One of many reason why I want nothing to do with HP (H-PHUX) ever again. > > Anyway, how about underclocking your Duron some? Reset the BIOS timings > and power levels to failsafe? The old K7+VIA Chipset boards were a rough > crowd.
This is a custom white box server, all put together. It is not an HP. I will try to reset the bios timings and power levels. JohnM > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, John Mendenhall wrote: > > >openbsd gurus, > > > >As my saga continues... > >I have a newly built server on which I am attempting to install > >openbsd 4.0. Problems occurred on install of sets, where comp > >set keeps throwing errors. Suggestion was made that it was probably > >a bad CD. Try a previous CD of an earlier version. I had 3.9 > >available. The logs of the attempts are posted at: > > > > http://www.surfutopia.net/openbsd/ > > > >The logs are separated by the boot log, an install log not > >including the install of the sets, and two passes of the install > >of the sets, all dying in the comp set install. > > > >I have two drives in the server. I only installed on one (wd0). > >I have had the same types of errors when only installing on the > >second (wd1). So, it is most likely not a problem with the > >specific drive. However, the probability could exist. > > > >So, based on these logs, from different openbsd cd versions, > >my hypothesis is there is some weird sort of hardware problem. > >My question is, what tools do you all use to determine where > >the hardware problem could be? > > > >I have already ran the memory through the memtests. There is > >not a problem there. > > > >I am willing to try (almost) anything to play around with > >this. I would like to get the server up and running so I > >can move on to the next one. No time pressure, though. > > > >Thank you in advance for any pointers you can provide. > > > >Thanks! > > > >JohnM -- john mendenhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] surf utopia internet services
