Hey folks,
I have a 4501 running the latest ComBIOS (1.31b), booting OpenBSD
4.1-STABLE on a CF card. Everything works great.
However, something I'm very curious about... When I choose the
(I)nstall option in the OpenBSD installer, I can install a new -STABLE
build of the OS from the CF card in about 24 minutes. That time
includes formatting the CF and everything.
If I choose (U)pgrade, it takes over 3 *hours* to install the same
-STABLE build off the same CF card. As the tarballs are installing,
I get the usual progress meter, but the larger ones time out over and
over again, saying "-- stalled --". Keep in mind, each time I test
this, I have copied the entire distribution to the CF card, and have
selected "disk" as the source of the tarballs. Nothing's going over
the network whatsoever.
Again, everything works perfectly when the OS is running. But I'm
really, really curious to know why this happens. It _always_ completes
successfully, the OS always runs fine, and I see no instabilities.
I'd appreciate it if someone could give it a think, and offer any
reasons...
Thanks much!
Benny
ps: Dmesg follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dmesg
OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC) #25: Sun Aug 19 06:05:51 CDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 ("AuthenticAMD" 486-class)
cpu0: FPU
real mem = 66678784 (65116K)
avail mem = 52539392 (51308K)
using 844 buffers containing 3457024 bytes (3376K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 20/70/14, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
elansc0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD ElanSC520 PCI" rev 0x00: product 0
stepping 0.1, CPU clock 133MHz, reset 0
gpio0 at elansc0: 32 pins
sis0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq
10, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ec
nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq
11, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ed
nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis2 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq
5, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ee
nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-2048>
wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 1953MB, 4001760 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: console
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
biomask f3c5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
pctr: no performance counters in CPU
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
--
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face with a spade." -- Loren Wilton
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