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15:21 on Setting Orange, 63 Aftermath YOLD 3172 by 
dysphoric 
nine inch nails: broken
dysphoric nine inch nails: broken Today I got around to installing the memory upgrade I bought for my closet server some months ago.
Swap out 2×256 + 1×128 MB.
Swap in 2×512 + 1×256 MB.
Power on. POST detects 1280 MB of memory and automagically updates BIOS settings. Machine restarts and POST is happy.
Boot. NetBSD kernel starts. Auto-detects hardware. Disks. Asks for root file system. WTF?!
Manually type raid0a. Error. WTF?!
Boot netbsd.old instead. raid0a found but everything crashes.
Boot from install CD. Look at disklabels. See garbage. WTF?!
OK, maybe one of the 512 MB DIMM:s were bad. Strip down to just the known good 256 MB DIMM. Everything looks perfect.
OK, plug one 512 MB DIMM back. Everything looks perfect, well it was a 50/50 chance...
OK, swap 512 MB DIMM:s. Everything looks perfect. WTF?!
Plug in only 2×512 MB. garbled disklabels. sigh
1×512 + 1×256 MB. Everything OK.
Feh! 1 kSEK for a 128 MB memory upgrade and a pile of spare parts instead of the wanted 640 MB upgrade and a small pile of junk.
Swap out 2×256 + 1×128 MB.
Swap in 2×512 + 1×256 MB.
Power on. POST detects 1280 MB of memory and automagically updates BIOS settings. Machine restarts and POST is happy.
Boot. NetBSD kernel starts. Auto-detects hardware. Disks. Asks for root file system. WTF?!
Manually type raid0a. Error. WTF?!
Boot netbsd.old instead. raid0a found but everything crashes.
Boot from install CD. Look at disklabels. See garbage. WTF?!
OK, maybe one of the 512 MB DIMM:s were bad. Strip down to just the known good 256 MB DIMM. Everything looks perfect.
OK, plug one 512 MB DIMM back. Everything looks perfect, well it was a 50/50 chance...
OK, swap 512 MB DIMM:s. Everything looks perfect. WTF?!
Plug in only 2×512 MB. garbled disklabels. sigh
1×512 + 1×256 MB. Everything OK.
Feh! 1 kSEK for a 128 MB memory upgrade and a pile of spare parts instead of the wanted 640 MB upgrade and a small pile of junk.
ODDN: tag:discord.bofh.se,2005:bl/2006-12-21T15:21:39.599818+01:00
