[Soekris] installing ubuntu server via deboostrap

[Bill Maas]

Hi Rod/,

since you obviously Know It All please tell me what caused this:

May 17 17:00:14 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  bad block detected writing fsbn
661472 of 661472-661503 (wd0 bn 661536; cn 656 tn 4 sn 36), retrying
May 17 17:00:17 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  bad block detected writing fsbn
661472 of 661472-661503 (wd0 bn 661536; cn 656 tn 4 sn 36)
May 17 17:00:17 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  bad block detected writing fsbn
662432 of 662432-662463 (wd0 bn 662496; cn 657 tn 3 sn 51), retrying
May 17 17:00:20 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  bad block detected writing fsbn
662432 of 662432-662463 (wd0 bn 662496; cn 657 tn 3 sn 51)
[... endless list ...]
May 17 17:00:08 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  id not found reading fsbn 57856 of
57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23), retrying
May 17 17:00:10 soekris2 last message repeated 4 times
May 17 17:00:11 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  id not found reading fsbn 57856 of
57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23)
May 17 17:00:11 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a:  id not found reading fsbn 57856 of
57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23), retrying
[... idem ...]

Cosmic radiation?

An Amateur

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:07 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:37:06 +0100, Antoine Zen-Ruffinen wrote:
> 
> >Something is appearing to me as I read your instructions. I don't
> >think it is a good idea to swap on the CF. It will use it prematurely
> >as a CF has a limited read/write-cycle lifetime. But your instructions
> >are good anyway.
> >
> 
> Rubbish. Haven't you seen the new machines that use flash "disks" ?
> 
> Yes, there is a cycle limit on writes (NOT reads) but trying to thrash
> a 512MB Apacer PhotoSteno to death for a year was a total failure. It
> is still running more than a year later in a 4801 doing firewall duty.
> 
> I throw a completely standard OpenBSD on there using pxeboot. No X, no
> games, no compilers (NOT for security as that is another fallacious
> idea) and until recently I used a miniscule swap (that never gets
> written to) because OpenBSD used to complain. That's now fixed.
> 
> Compiling special kernels, running ramdisk (in a machine that is low on
> RAM?) and all those other "hair shirt" measures are not worth the time
> they take.
> 
> As an IBM Linux instructor (now retired) I sure know how to do all that
> stuff but my time is still worth money so I'll leave it to amateurs.
> 
> R/
> 
> Rod/
> 
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> 
> -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984.
> 
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