"pkg: out of space" on mostly empty CF card
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Yeah it feels like it might be an edge case you're hitting there. Almost no-one will be using a CF that size. I don't think we ever shipped anything larger than 8GB.
Also I'm almost certain that CF card is not running at the UDMA5 it reports. Almost all CF slots were missing the pins to actually enable UDMA. Way back when the driver used to show that.
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hey. i got a similar issue by upgrading 24.05 > 24.11 . after deleting unused boot environment it upgraded smoothly.
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Yes, if you're actually out of space because the drive is filled with BE snaps it will also show that error.
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The C2k Intel Aroms are run into some LPC problems and die.
But it start strange, some can be recovered with a 100Ohm resistor. -
But that's unrelated to boot media. I would not expect that to ever present like this.
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I didn't have any unused BEs or anything, the card was almost entirely clear. It was something else. Also not the C2k bug, I've dealt with over a hundred machines with that, and rescued most with the resistor trick :) I'm hoping to give the machine another go with a SATA drive tomorrow, I finally found the floppy->SATA power cable needed for this weird little board.
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I found the problem - I tried reinstalling with an archived copy of the old standalone 24.03 installer, selected BIOS+Active, and boom - booted. The new installer doesn't have the ability to boot these older boxes. So I was running into a cascade of issues - first, my CF card failed, then the installer wasn't able to set up the hardware to boot properly.
There might be other options the old installer could do that let this machine boot - I know there were a bunch of options - I wonder if they could be added back to the new installer to give us the ability to keep this otherwise in-spec hardware running.
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Also, forgot to mention, it upgraded to 24.11 no problem :)
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Hmm, so the net installer doesn't boot at all? IIRC there were some quirks on those older boxes to allow it to boot.
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@stephenw10 the net installer boots from USB, but installations don’t boot. If I use pure MBR it gets to the old F1/F2/F6 prompt but won’t go further.
