Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? You won't be able to partition the disk from the command line because the install MFS doesn't have any of the requisite tools to do so. You could do it from a livefs disk however. As for observations.. I think you're wasting your time :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !
On Sun, 10 May 2009, James Phillips wrote: --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org Subject: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev ! To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Monday, May 11, 2009, 6:45 AM Hi all: Issue faced Installer on 'Commit' step shows Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted. I am missing some context, but for me ad4 refers to the first drive on an add-on card. (ad0,1 - Primary IDE controller, ad2,3 - Secondary IDE controller) handbook reference: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html (Rule out the situation described in: 2.6.1 BIOS Drive Numbering) Your hardware in newer than mine: you have only one PATA port and 2 SATA ports. While having your drive labeled as ad4 strikes me as weird, I don't have enough BSD experience to know if it is a symptom of a problem or not. (I know my drive is on ad4 because the on-board controllers are slower than my add-on card. After a BIOS update booting is no problem. (I initially tried to forcibly disable the on-board controller: now, I ignore it.)) Do you think you may have come across an installer bug? If so, I suspect we will need more information about exactly what you were trying to do. Regards, James Phillips System Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz Intel 945GM board Mobile chipset apparently. 2GB DDR2 160GB SATA Seagate HDD SNIPPED Version 7.1 works, 8.0 does not Any pointers or workarounds ? Thank you for your kind reply. Thank you for the handbook reference, i did read the section. In fact, there is only one SATA HDD in my laptop. PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) I've got two identical Compaq Presario C300TU laptops - one running Gentoo Linux and other would run FreeBSD 8.0 (when it gets) Additionally, from the BIOS i've activated . Wireless Radio (Broadcom chipset) . Native SATA Controller . Realtek Netboot agent There is only ONE SATA Seagate HDD of 160GB in the system. Currently, i'm struggling to get the installation work from the Fixit# command line. Any suggestions ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit environment which is very handy for this. I would suggest a combination of LOTS of reading and understanding of the pages at http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 (which goes though the steps for partitoning and installing using fdisk and bsdlabel, adjust paths to your dvd-rom) and if you want zfs http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/ (goes though using gpart instead of fdisk and bsdlabel if you want to use zfs on root) should be enough to get you started. I assume you dont need too much hand holding since you want to install -CURRENT. Vince thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Sun E250
Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to have Freebsd running on it. I see from the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html#AEN30 that freebsd runs on E250, but it is not clear for me whether it supports the disk array. Would you know of anyone running FreeBSD on that storage? Thanks, Raul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Processors
Hi, I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. Thanks a lot.. -- Renato A. Rocabo mobile: 09208095152 email: cserge...@gmail.com ym: carlos_serge...@yahoo.com skype: rrocabo If you don't write it down, then it never happen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. yes it is. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to fix interrupt storm
PerryH-2 wrote: There are no USB devices connected. I think those must actually be atapci1 interrupts, since irq9 is where dmesg reported it. I think this could be related to previous issues on same topic. I don't recall the thread titles, but the solution is located here: http://confighell.com/FreeBSD#How_to_get_rid_of_interrupt_storm_atapci0_and_others_ I hope it can solve things out for you as well. - Nicolai -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-fix-%22interrupt-storm%22-tp23450486p23481884.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
64-Bit Linux Applications
Hello, can I run 64 bit Linux applications on FreeBSD/amd64? Or is Linux emulation 32 bit only? Thanks and best regards Konrad Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: 7.2-release and xorg
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:56:01 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: socke...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-release and xorg firak jotawski wrote: hi sirs, apologized me for disturbing the list but i really have problem, X -config /root/xorg.conf.new produce a black screen and die. i attached my machine uname -a, my xorg packages installed, X -configure output and its' configuration file. any helps anf hints would highly appreciated. with best regards, psr _ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html eg # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new Starting with Xorg 7.4 and above, this test produces a black screen which may make it difficult to diagnose whether X11 is working properly. The older behavior is still available by using the retro option: # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro Thank you for your kind reply. And the links that i have read but i have no lucks in starting X. i have to revert back to 7.3 instead since i need to bring my box up and running for works tomorrow. i will try again by the end of this month anyway. i appreciate all of helps and hints for my case. with best regards, psr Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org _ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 04:49:27PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: I often use make -DBATCH install to install ports. Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install them (eg, you must manually create an x user or something). Since ports install recursively, I miss most of these messages. Can I tell ports to store these messages for me somewhere? Obviously, I can make -DBATCH install /tmp/outfile, but that'll log all the install, test, etc commands that I don't want to see: I just want to see the warnings at the end of each install. Check out script(1) It is not perfect, but it will put a copy of everything in and out in to a file that you can peruse later. There may be other ways, but this is easy. jerry -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit environment which is very handy for this. I would suggest a combination of LOTS of reading and understanding of the pages at http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 (which goes though the steps for partitoning and installing using fdisk and bsdlabel, adjust paths to your dvd-rom) and if you want zfs http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/ (goes though using gpart instead of fdisk and bsdlabel if you want to use zfs on root) should be enough to get you started. I assume you dont need too much hand holding since you want to install -CURRENT. Vince Vince, thanks for the freebsd-on-usb link. i really appreciate your help. Unknown giant i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ? stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving unknown giant. Oh well :) Check this out http://www.twincling.org/node/237 If you scan this page for a minute, you will appreciate the overall flow of installation of Gentoo Linux. Even if you haven't tried the weekly Gentoo build, you may be encouraged to try this out ! Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. thanks Saifi. the time has come ... 1227. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? You won't be able to partition the disk from the command line because the install MFS doesn't have any of the requisite tools to do so. ??? I don't understand this comment. Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. The only thing to remember is that the running writable root file system under fixit is in memory. You have to make sure that what you do is to the disk and that the fstab you create is on the disk. It is easy to lose track and make an /etc/fstab modification or a mount point in the MFS and then find it is no longer there when you reboot. But, you just have to pay attention to where you are doing things. jerry You could do it from a livefs disk however. As for observations.. I think you're wasting your time :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:52:39AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: I often use make -DBATCH install to install ports. Problem: many ports spew out a warning/todo message after you install them (eg, you must manually create an x user or something). Since ports install recursively, I miss most of these messages. Can I tell ports to store these messages for me somewhere? Obviously, I can make -DBATCH install /tmp/outfile, but that'll log all the install, test, etc commands that I don't want to see: I just want to see the warnings at the end of each install. portmaster will save up package messages and display them all at the end of the session. I believe a similar feature is planned for portupgrade but as far as I know it hasn't been released yet. In any case, you can redisplay the pkg-message for any installed port by: % pkg_info -Dx portname Cheers, Matthew This is handy and seems to work. But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those messages and especially messages about things one has to do during the install, such as manually installing something or getting some license thing handled, before I start the port install. Sometimes I get a question in the middle of an install that I do not know how to answer and it is an awfully inconvenient time to have to start scrounging for information.Having a commannd that would display all those things and maybe some related information or pointers to information for making an intelligent response - before starting the make - would be very helpful. jerry -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Renato A. Rocabo cserge...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. Thanks a lot.. -- Renato A. Rocabo mobile: 09208095152 email: cserge...@gmail.com ym: carlos_serge...@yahoo.com skype: rrocabo Welcome to FreeBSD. Since you're new, it's likely that you'll have many such questions regarding hardware compatibility. The link below will take you to the hardware notes for the most recent release (7.2): http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/hardware.html Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? You won't be able to partition the disk from the command line because the install MFS doesn't have any of the requisite tools to do so. ??? I don't understand this comment. Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. Depends what sort of fixit you have. A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will. It's pretty easy to do a minimal install on your new disk and then go into the fixit shell, then you will have the full suite of tools (although if you're doing a full restore you should use the /rescue version or odd things will happen when you overwrite the binary you're using). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Cant setup carp as BACKUP
Hi, i have 2 servers running FreeBSD 7.1 on IBM 3550. I configured 2 carp: internal and external carps. Internal carp is working fine, but external one are MASTER on both servers. Trinity# cat rc.conf|grep carp cloned_interfaces=carp0 carp1 ifconfig_carp1=up 10.100.0.119/24 vhid 2 pass fw_cmt123 ifconfig_carp2=up 200.143.111.113/28 vhid 1 pass fw_cmt123 # carp1: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.100.0.119 netmask 0xff00 carp: MASTER vhid 2 advbase 1 advskew 0 ng1: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1460 inet 172.16.0.1 -- 172.16.0.2 netmask 0x carp2: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 200.143.111.113 netmask 0xfff0 carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 0 Ajax# cat rc.conf |grep carp cloned_interfaces=carp0 carp1 #ifconfig_carp0=up 200.143.111.113/28 vhid 1 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 ifconfig_carp2=vhid 1 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 200.143.111.113/28 ifconfig_carp1=up 10.100.0.119/24 vhid 2 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 Ajax# carp1: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.100.0.119 netmask 0xff00 carp: BACKUP vhid 2 advbase 1 advskew 100 carp2: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 200.143.111.113 netmask 0xfff0 carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100 Ajax# How do i set carp2 on Ajax to be BACKUP? AT this configuration, most packets to 200.143.111.113 are going to Trinity and some going to Ajax. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Unknown giant i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ? stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving unknown giant. Oh well :) I think you're missing the point of a -current snapshot. It is _not_ designed for someone to come along and go hey I'd like to get into developing FreeBSD, I'll install it. It is there as a system test (ie make sure make release works) and to provide a handy ISO for gurus if they need to bootstrap something. The fact the installer is broken should be reported as a bug though (ie send-pr). Check this out http://www.twincling.org/node/237 If you scan this page for a minute, you will appreciate the overall flow of installation of Gentoo Linux. Even if you haven't tried the weekly Gentoo build, you may be encouraged to try this out ! Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. If you want to try FreeBSD, start with a release, if that works then you can update to HEAD and install that way. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. Here is the PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) How does the labelling logic work ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sun E250
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:27 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to Try a LiveCD on it? Also, does the Storedge A1000 require a special RAID controller or does it appear on the onboard HBA as a logical volume? In my experience, Sun has a limited set of RAID cards, but most RAIDs are DAS with a management interface (Ethernet mostly) ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Unable to compile Hal
I am currently running FBSD RELEASE-7.2. I have updated the system using freebsd-update, ran portsnap fetch update to update all ports, and then ran portupgrade to upgrade all installed ports to their current versions. Yet, I am unable to compile hal; I get an error message /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so: undefined reference to 'strn...@fbsd_1.1'. Any suggestions would be welcome. -- -- Best, David Karapetyan http://davidkarapetyan.com University of Notre Dame Department of Mathematics 255 Hurley Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618 Phone: 574-631-5706 Cell: 202-460-5173 Fax: 574-631-6579 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. [snip] How does the labelling logic work ? FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so that if you connect them later your existing devices don't need to be renumbered. Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BIOSes let you change this. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
You may want to become familiar with: # # The following options are valid on the ATA driver: # # ATA_STATIC_ID:controller numbering is static ie depends on location # else the device numbers are dynamically allocated. options ATA_STATIC_ID Long time ago FreeBSD people decided that it's very annoying when you plug ata CD or another HDD and then your ad1 (which is ad4) becomes ad2, and makes your OS un- bootable without manual intervention. Today we have geom labels, but still ATA_STATIC_ID is something I really miss on every linux .. P.S. -current removed. On May 11, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. Here is the PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/ GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) How does the labelling logic work ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:30:23PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. [snip] How does the labelling logic work ? FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so that if you connect them later your existing devices don't need to be renumbered. It does this if you have 'options ATA_STATIC_ID' in your kernel config (which is the default.) Otherwise all PATA/SATA disks installed will numbered from ad0 upwards without any gaps. The drawback of that is that without the static numbering the disk devices can (and often will) be renumbered if you add or remove a disk, which often is not desirable. Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BIOSes let you change this. Jonathan -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Licensing
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:47:52AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: One thing that did not cross my mind prior was regarding the comments Chad made, use in media other than within the programming scope itself. I think that's an important consideration that most programmers overlook. One of the greatest benefits of open source software is the availability of the code for viewing by people who want to *learn*. To use licenses that make it difficult to include code in a single instructional work distributed under the terms of a single license seems extremely short-sighted to me. Even if you don't think your code will ever be used in such a way, code that *incorporates* yours may some day be suitable for such a purpose, and it would be nice if the license you choose lends itself to such use in the future. FYI, almost all of my apps are for systems/network management and automation. I've written an application that bridges our wireless hotspots to our payment bank site (the bank supplied me a Perl module), through to radius, and with an expiry method to automatically remove the users so that the entire process is hands off. The bank's Perl module may well impose constraints on how you can license your code, in addition to any restrictions that may exist as a result of employment agreements and contracts, at least if the module ends up being part of, or a source of necessary functionality for, your code. Most of my code would have to be changed to make it generic and not so site specific before being put out there. Being that I'm not really a programmer, having my code out there for peer review would make it much, much better if it was useful. (I'd probably be on the receiving end of finger pointing and laughing, but that's ok ;) That's a great attitude. I wish you the best of luck in coming to an equitable and satisfying decision about licensing, and in future coding efforts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Mike Maples, as quoted by James Gleick: My job is to get a fair share of the software applications market, and to me that's 100 percent. pgpGaCcEmMWPz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
By default, ATA disks are assigned numbers based on the ATA controller they are on, and whether they are primary or secondary on the controller. For example, the primary disk on the first controller would be ad0, the secondary disk on the first controller would be ad1, the primary disk on the second controller would be ad2, etc. This is the ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option. I expect that there are two ATA controllers before the one your disk is on. You may confirm this by running atacontrol list. -Boris Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. Here is the PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) How does the labelling logic work ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BIOSes let you change this. Or you can take option ATA_STATIC_ID out of your kernel config. /JMS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sun E250
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:27 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to Try a LiveCD on it? Also, does the Storedge A1000 require a special RAID controller or does it appear on the onboard HBA as a logical volume? In my experience, Sun has a limited set of RAID cards, but most RAIDs are DAS with a management interface (Ethernet mostly) ~BAS Hi, Thanks for your reply. No. the A1000 does not require any special RAID controller. Freebsd 7.2 is freezing after message: Jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 I tried boot both with bootonly and install CDs. raul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
boot0 installation not permitted in single slice config
Hi all: Trying to install the 'boot0' boot manager on the MBR, from the Fixit# command prompt as Fixit# boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate /dev/ad4 the response is: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted. i've configured a single slice for the entire disk as Fixit# fdisk -B -I /dev/ad4 Is it that by default the sector 0 is taken as the start point if the entire disk is configured with a single slice ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RES: Cant setup carp as BACKUP
Anyone know how do i 'force' a carp to be backup? I set a advskew higher than the master but it comes up as master. ;( -Mensagem original- De: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] Em nome de Ricardo Augusto de Souza Enviada em: segunda-feira, 11 de maio de 2009 10:46 Para: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Assunto: Cant setup carp as BACKUP Hi, i have 2 servers running FreeBSD 7.1 on IBM 3550. I configured 2 carp: internal and external carps. Internal carp is working fine, but external one are MASTER on both servers. Trinity# cat rc.conf|grep carp cloned_interfaces=carp0 carp1 ifconfig_carp1=up 10.100.0.119/24 vhid 2 pass fw_cmt123 ifconfig_carp2=up 200.143.111.113/28 vhid 1 pass fw_cmt123 # carp1: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.100.0.119 netmask 0xff00 carp: MASTER vhid 2 advbase 1 advskew 0 ng1: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1460 inet 172.16.0.1 -- 172.16.0.2 netmask 0x carp2: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 200.143.111.113 netmask 0xfff0 carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 0 Ajax# cat rc.conf |grep carp cloned_interfaces=carp0 carp1 #ifconfig_carp0=up 200.143.111.113/28 vhid 1 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 ifconfig_carp2=vhid 1 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 200.143.111.113/28 ifconfig_carp1=up 10.100.0.119/24 vhid 2 advskew 100 pass fw_cmt123 Ajax# carp1: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.100.0.119 netmask 0xff00 carp: BACKUP vhid 2 advbase 1 advskew 100 carp2: flags=49UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 200.143.111.113 netmask 0xfff0 carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100 Ajax# How do i set carp2 on Ajax to be BACKUP? AT this configuration, most packets to 200.143.111.113 are going to Trinity and some going to Ajax. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter
Hi, I had a short look on google for this parameters, and from my understanding the NFS diskless client is using the informations out of it to set the appropriate settings on the network interface. So no luck when supplying them as kernel parameters. Oh and btw I'm not sure how to setup kernel options. Normally this is done in 'loader.conf', but since para-virtualized xen does start the kernel directly there's no way to do this via loader.conf. Does anyone have some idea or hints how to solve this problem? Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:52 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, On 6 May 2009, at 16:20, Mister Olli wrote: is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems via kernel command line parameters? [etc] When running diskless, the loader sets kernel variables like: boot.netif.gateway=192.168.198.1 boot.netif.hwaddr=00:15:17:47:14:fc boot.netif.ip=192.168.198.8 boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0 to values obtained from BOOTP or DHCP, and the right things happen. I guess you could just set these in loader.conf or at the loader prompt. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot0 installation not permitted in single slice config
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:27:34PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Trying to install the 'boot0' boot manager on the MBR, from the Fixit# command prompt as Fixit# boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate /dev/ad4 the response is: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted. i've configured a single slice for the entire disk as Fixit# fdisk -B -I /dev/ad4 Is it that by default the sector 0 is taken as the start point if the entire disk is configured with a single slice ? Use fdisk.fdisk -B ad4 The fdisk commane you indicate does all you need. eg: fdisk -B -I ad4 does what you want and you do not need the boot0cfg jerry thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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Re: Sun E250
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:19:25 +0100 RAUL H C LOPES rlo...@cern.ch wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:27 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to Try a LiveCD on it? Also, does the Storedge A1000 require a special RAID controller or does it appear on the onboard HBA as a logical volume? In my experience, Sun has a limited set of RAID cards, but most RAIDs are DAS with a management interface (Ethernet mostly) ~BAS Hi, Thanks for your reply. No. the A1000 does not require any special RAID controller. Freebsd 7.2 is freezing after message: Jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 The same to me. I have a Sun Enterprise 250 to, and on the same place it freeze to. I test it with FreeBSD 6.2, 7.1, 7.2 and 8 current (all sparc64) Here the output from a FreeBSD 7.1 sparc64 boot: Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot devices: /p...@1f,4000/s...@3/d...@6,0:f File and args: FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block Boot path: /p...@1f,4000/s...@3/d...@6,0:a Boot loader:/boot/loader Consoles: Open Firmware console FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 (r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Jan 1 08:47:00 UTC 2009) bootpath=/p...@1f,4000/s...@3/d...@6,0:a Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x739b48+0x74b38 syms=[0x8+0x7d058+0x8+0x6bd34] / Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... jumping to kernel entry at 0xc007000. No RAID controller in the SUN too. I tried boot both with bootonly and install CDs. raul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fdisk: class not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Saifi Khan wrote: | Hi all: Hi Saifi, | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. | | Should we write new partition table ? [n] y | fdisk: Class not found | | When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. | | What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ? This comes from geom. See geom(8). | | There is no mention of the 'Class' in fdisk man page at | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisksektion=8 | | Can the experienced BSD guys explain ? | | | thanks | Saifi. - -- Pietro Cerutti g...@freebsd.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp +-+ | How do you get | |that backwards b?| +-+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkoIYdgACgkQwMJqmJVx947R0QCcDrLUjkU+z/shQQtmPzGGVJFN nF8AnA1m/emOWiq7v1jKypLyOZYWNJHj =bIVF -END PGP SIGNATURE- pi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) wrote: Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. Depends what sort of fixit you have. A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will. That reminds me... Can someone explain to me why it's called a holographic shell? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server
Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update MySQL without down time. My objective would be to create another up to date MySQL jail and when I'm ready to make the switch, just point the new jail to the data outside the jail using something like a nullfs mount. Is someone using something like this? Did someone have any advice about how to update a MySQL server without down time? Did someone have any advice on how to tune a dedicated MySQL server running FreeBSD 7.2 (Dual core Xeon, 4G RAM, mirror RAID on a PERC5 controler 2x146G 15K)? Thanks everyone for sharing your precious knowledge :) I expect that what you're trying to do will work, however it's horrifically error-prone during the upgrade procedure (what if you forget to stop the first MySQL before you start the new one!) If you need to do anything zero-downtime, then you probably want to run multiple MySQL instances and use database replication to keep the data in sync. That way you just switch which DB is master, then upgrade the slave ... rinse/repeat. Hi and thanks for your reply. Sorry for the late response... I thought about the risk of the procedure and that's why I asked here hoping that someone had a better idea! Do you mean to have another jail with an up to date slave MySQL, get it in sync with the master and then switch the config file of the slave to make it a master, restart the new MySQL, change the config so that the apps are connecting to the new DB? Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server
In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update MySQL without down time. My objective would be to create another up to date MySQL jail and when I'm ready to make the switch, just point the new jail to the data outside the jail using something like a nullfs mount. Is someone using something like this? Did someone have any advice about how to update a MySQL server without down time? Did someone have any advice on how to tune a dedicated MySQL server running FreeBSD 7.2 (Dual core Xeon, 4G RAM, mirror RAID on a PERC5 controler 2x146G 15K)? Thanks everyone for sharing your precious knowledge :) I expect that what you're trying to do will work, however it's horrifically error-prone during the upgrade procedure (what if you forget to stop the first MySQL before you start the new one!) If you need to do anything zero-downtime, then you probably want to run multiple MySQL instances and use database replication to keep the data in sync. That way you just switch which DB is master, then upgrade the slave ... rinse/repeat. Hi and thanks for your reply. Sorry for the late response... I thought about the risk of the procedure and that's why I asked here hoping that someone had a better idea! Do you mean to have another jail with an up to date slave MySQL, get it in sync with the master and then switch the config file of the slave to make it a master, restart the new MySQL, change the config so that the apps are connecting to the new DB? Yeah. That's what we do here (although we're using PostgreSQL/Slony). It works on a number of levels. In our case, each database is on a separate physical server, so we can move the master database to a different server, then do a complete OS/software upgrade with no downtime to the application (ok, there _is_ some downtime, it takes about 60 seconds to move everything around, but that amount of downtime is hardly even noticeable to a client, and our front-end code is designed to wait it out and continuously reconnect, so if the user is just patient, the site eventually comes up) I'm not nearly as familiar with MySQL's replication solution as I am with PostgreSQL's, but Slony allows us to have multiple versions of PostgreSQL running, so we can do our upgrading a little at a time as the situation allows. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installation - VT4
When you install freeBSD via sysinstall you could switch to VT2 which displays what files it is currently installing and you could switch to VT4 which displays some kind of prompt. What exactly is that prompt? sh? What utilities does it have access to? When would you want to use it? -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation - VT4
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.comwrote: When you install freeBSD via sysinstall you could switch to VT2 which displays what files it is currently installing and you could switch to VT4 which displays some kind of prompt. What exactly is that prompt? sh? What utilities does it have access to? When would you want to use it? -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ttyv4 is the holographic shell otherwise mentioned. It only has access to built-in commands (such as echo, cd, etc) It's really limited and so far, haven't found a use for it yet. I think it was a new thing when sysinstall was out and was useful back then. Since then, we've kept it and just haven't done much to it. If you find a use, share it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update MySQL without down time. My objective would be to create another up to date MySQL jail and when I'm ready to make the switch, just point the new jail to the data outside the jail using something like a nullfs mount. Is someone using something like this? Did someone have any advice about how to update a MySQL server without down time? Did someone have any advice on how to tune a dedicated MySQL server running FreeBSD 7.2 (Dual core Xeon, 4G RAM, mirror RAID on a PERC5 controler 2x146G 15K)? Thanks everyone for sharing your precious knowledge :) I expect that what you're trying to do will work, however it's horrifically error-prone during the upgrade procedure (what if you forget to stop the first MySQL before you start the new one!) If you need to do anything zero-downtime, then you probably want to run multiple MySQL instances and use database replication to keep the data in sync. That way you just switch which DB is master, then upgrade the slave ... rinse/repeat. Hi and thanks for your reply. Sorry for the late response... I thought about the risk of the procedure and that's why I asked here hoping that someone had a better idea! Do you mean to have another jail with an up to date slave MySQL, get it in sync with the master and then switch the config file of the slave to make it a master, restart the new MySQL, change the config so that the apps are connecting to the new DB? You may want to research using MySQL in dual-master mode. In this architecture, each MySQL instance is both a master and a slave. Some care must be taken in the configuration but is well-documented and googalable. I recently deployed such a configuration using a jail for each instance. Upgrading from 5.1.33 to 5.1.34 was a snap and there was no down time. In my case, I use a DNS CNAME to identify the master instance that all clients access. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update MySQL without down time. My objective would be to create another up to date MySQL jail and when I'm ready to make the switch, just point the new jail to the data outside the jail using something like a nullfs mount. Is someone using something like this? Did someone have any advice about how to update a MySQL server without down time? Did someone have any advice on how to tune a dedicated MySQL server running FreeBSD 7.2 (Dual core Xeon, 4G RAM, mirror RAID on a PERC5 controler 2x146G 15K)? Thanks everyone for sharing your precious knowledge :) I expect that what you're trying to do will work, however it's horrifically error-prone during the upgrade procedure (what if you forget to stop the first MySQL before you start the new one!) If you need to do anything zero-downtime, then you probably want to run multiple MySQL instances and use database replication to keep the data in sync. That way you just switch which DB is master, then upgrade the slave ... rinse/repeat. Hi and thanks for your reply. Sorry for the late response... I thought about the risk of the procedure and that's why I asked here hoping that someone had a better idea! Do you mean to have another jail with an up to date slave MySQL, get it in sync with the master and then switch the config file of the slave to make it a master, restart the new MySQL, change the config so that the apps are connecting to the new DB? You may want to research using MySQL in dual-master mode. In this architecture, each MySQL instance is both a master and a slave. Some care must be taken in the configuration but is well-documented and googalable. I recently deployed such a configuration using a jail for each instance. Upgrading from 5.1.33 to 5.1.34 was a snap and there was no down time. In my case, I use a DNS CNAME to identify the master instance that all clients access. -- Regards, Doug -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
Saifi Khan wrote: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) The ide interface gets ad0, ad1, ad2, ad3, the sata controller numbering starts with ad4. Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
andrew clarke wrote: On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) wrote: A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will. That reminds me... Can someone explain to me why it's called a holographic shell? It's an 'emergency holographic shell' actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Star_Trek) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
Saifi Khan wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please. Don't know about 'wisdom', per se, from me... But consider this: FreeBSD software development is a tree with 3 main branches from the trunk. They are -Release, -Stable, and -Current (aka HEAD). -Release is what a newcomer should use, or if used in a production environment. The -Release branch does receive ongoing maintenance in the form of security updates. -Stable is where newer software from -Current (HEAD) is merged backwards. An example would be a driver bug that was fixed in 8.0-Current would be made available in 7.2-Stable. The main purpose for using -Stable is for when some specific problem you are having in 7.2-Release has been fixed, and updating from -Release to -Stable is how you go about obtaining the fix. -Current (aka HEAD) is the place where active development on the next version takes place. For example, the code that is in -Current today will eventually be FreeBSD-8. You would run this if you were an active developer knowing full well that it could have deficiencies at any given time. The work is fluid and is known to break, with the idea that only programmers who can assist in fixing what breaks should be using it. A Snapshot is a frozen in time snapshot of -Current. Therefore, it is not what a newcomer or regular user should be using. The -Release install can always be updated to -Stable or -Current at a later time should it be necessary. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:08 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: -Stable is where newer software from -Current (HEAD) is merged backwards. An example would be a driver bug that was fixed in 8.0-Current would be made available in 7.2-Stable. The main purpose for using -Stable is for when some specific problem you are having in 7.2-Release has been fixed, and updating from -Release to -Stable is how you go about obtaining the fix. Also bear in mind that only the base system is branched, not the ports tree. And most user-visible change takes place in ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail
I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Where's the 600 MB gone to? Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail
In response to Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com: I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Really? This question has been asked a gazillion times ... Where's the 600 MB gone to? i386 arch can only see 4G total, but much hardware reserves the last 500M or so for special hardware addressing. The best option it so move to using amd64/EM64T arch, which doesn't have this problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ndis0 interrrupt storm
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/8/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/7/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: In the meantime I've tried the three possible drivers (XP, NT and an unlabelled one). I've also installed a recent 8-current snapshot, updated to latest source and built world, and tried the XP driver. Still get interrupt storms everywhere, also a panic (I think) in 8-current. Should I give up or are there other things to try? Panic should not happen. Please provide backtrace(or crashdump or textdump) `fetch http://www.fishercroft.plus.com/vmcore.1.gz' should get a crashdump from a non-debug kernel, see below. It's about 17mb I built a driver with the XP driver using ndisgen and the same source as my recent build world. I kldload the driver module which also loads ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko. I've got wlans_ndis0=wlan0 in rc.conf and I get ndis0 and wlan0 created when I plug in the card. The interrupt storm starts when I do # ifconfig wlan0 ip addr The panic occurs maybe a minute or two after the ifconfig. I got a panic but I couldn't get a crashdump with the GENERIC kernel (nothing relevant to dumpon or savecore happened at all, no boot messages, nothing in /var/crash). I did get a bunch of stuff on ttyv0, I can post a photo somewhere if required. Or is there a way to get the screen output in text format? I built a kernel with the following changes #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU #makeoptionsDEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug Oh no, crash dump is useless with that option commented in kernel. [You can alway just look at documentation installed in /usr/share/doc/, for example developers handbook] symbols #optionsKDB # Enable kernel debugger support. #optionsDDB # Support DDB. #optionsGDB # Support remote GDB. #optionsINVARIANTS # Enable calls of extra sanity checking #optionsINVARIANT_SUPPORT # Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS #optionsWITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks and cycles #optionsWITNESS_SKIPSPIN# Don't run witness on spinlocks for speed Both KDB, DDB, GDB, WITNESS and INVARIANTS are usefull in debugging kernel. So please uncomment all that debugging support. After all you can build two kernels, and use boot loader command or nextboot(8) I tried with GENERIC and with my no-debug kernel. The panic happened with both but there was no crashdump with the GENERIC. All other settings were the same, eg no change to rc.conf. My setup seems to be right according to the developers handbook section 10.1. Is there something special I have to do with -CURRENT to get the crashdump? I got on ttyv0: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source repeated about 20 times then Sleeping thread (tid 100084, pid 0) owns a non-sleepable lock Heh, thats is bug, now only remains to find where it is caused. I got this screendump (copied and pasted) from ttyv0 before the panic with GENERIC. It was repeated maybe 20 times then dropped to db prompt. interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source Waiting on KeWFS with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex ndis0 (network driver) r = 0 (0xc34fd06c) locked @ /usr/sr c/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c:3432 KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper(c0c40c0b,d40e3ac0,c089d245,c3888072,d68,...) at db_trace_s elf_wrapper+0x26 kdb_backtrace(c3888072,d68,,c0eca774,d40e3af8,...) at kdb_backtrace+0x29 _witness_debugger(c0c42f9c,d40e3b0c,4,1,0,...) at _witness_debugger+0x25 witness_warn(5,c38a24d0,c0c37d7c,c389ea81,d40e3b3c,...) at witness_warn+0x1fd _cv_timedwait(d40e3b6c,c38a24d0,1389,,c38cafc8,...) at _cv_timedwait+0xc 6 KeWaitForSingleObject(c38cafc0,0,0,0,d40e3bbc,...) at KeWaitForSingleObject+0x1b 0 ndis_set_info(c34fd000,d01011a,0,d40e3bf8,c37b2524,...) at ndis_set_info+0x1c8 ndis_scan_start(c3a14000,0,c0c5286b,36e,80246,...) at ndis_scan_start+0xe8 scan_task(c3a04800,1,c0c42357,54,c38c485c,...) at scan_task+0x150 taskqueue_run(c38c4840,c38c485c,0,c0c33ff4,0,...) at taskqueue_run+0x10b taskqueue_thread_loop(c3a14074,d40e3d38,c0c39438,333,c0d88ca0,...) at taskqueue_ thread_loop+0x68 fork_exit(c08963e0,c3a14074,d40e3d38) at fork_exit+0xb8 fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xd40e3d70, ebp = 0 --- interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source panic: sleeping thread cpuid = 0 Uptime:17m26s Physical memory: 434 MB Dumping 79 MB: 64 48 32 16 Dump complete (The above typed by hand) Let me know if there is more I can do but (caveat) I'm not a developer and I only put CURRENT on the machine to test if the problem had been fixed, ie please don't flame me if you ask me really difficult stuff and I don't
Re: Processors
I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Thanks a lot.. -- Renato A. Rocabo mobile: 09208095152 email: cserge...@gmail.com ym: carlos_serge...@yahoo.com skype: rrocabo If you don't write it down, then it never happen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sun E250
isn't it external disk array connected with SCSI connector? if so - it looks like SCSI disk(s) to the computer and is supported by FreeBSD disk driver On Mon, 11 May 2009, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to have Freebsd running on it. I see from the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html#AEN30 that freebsd runs on E250, but it is not clear for me whether it supports the disk array. Would you know of anyone running FreeBSD on that storage? Thanks, Raul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? Search the archives. The question of Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while. I typically respond. Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has Wake-on-LAN capabilities. I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. Please search the archives. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail
On Monday, May 11, 2009, at 01:25PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com: I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Really? This question has been asked a gazillion times ... Agreeing with Bill Moran: http://www.google.com/search?q=+4+GB+RAM+hardware+but+only+3.4+GB+real%2Favail The first link takes me to: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html Which appears to be largely Windows specific, but very detailed if you are looking for a more in-depth explanation and also says: To be perfectly clear, this isn't a Windows problem-- it's an x86 hardware problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting question
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Michel Di Croci wrote: When I boot, it takes about 5 mins before being up and running. Since it's my first FreeBSD, I didn't thought there was an issue, but I think there's one ;) I have a P4 2.8 HT which is too bad computer and I really think the issue is in freeBSD and the Giant Locked and stuff like that. The computer stays in a waiting mode for about 3 minutes or something like that. It's unbearable, however, since I reboot like once in a month, it's not that bad ;) But I'm still wondering why it's so slow. It would help to know what shows on the screen. But my first guess is sendmail trying to get a FQDN and timing out. What happens if you press ctrl-c when it's waiting? Second guess is that you have some external USB device that your BIOS is trying to use for booting. Without knowing what the screen shows, it's hard to say. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has Wake-on-LAN capabilities. I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. Please search the archives. I did do a search before posting and I wasn't very encouraged by what I found. You've confirmed my findings, unfortunately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. if you want limited system - yes -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? wake on lan works before any OS is started, actually before computer is powered up - as it's made to power up computer by LAN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has isn't it BIOS option? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please. Like I said, install a release and upgrade that. You could try finding a -current snap that does work, but it's probably going to be quicker to just get the latest 7 release, install and then cvsup/csup to HEAD then build install. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Processors
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. if you want limited system - yes If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not very 'limited' to me. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.0 - 7.1 crash every two day
Have you tried: freebsd-update IDS ? I am assuming you did the freebsd-update to update the machine but if not maybe run through mergemaster and another rebuild of the world and kernel to make sure that none of the files got an error from the build. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, mailingl...@modernbiztonsag.org wrote: Dear List, I've upgraded from source my 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. It's a general purpose server for a small company and it's clients, running web, sql, mail and recursive dns. The machine is a Compaq ML350 G2. Version 7.0 was running on it for a year now without any problem. After 30 of April I've upgraded to 7.1 (I've followed the handbook) and since then nearly every two day the machine becomes unreachable except for echorequest. If i try to log in in the terminal it just hangs after i give my password. I'm out of any ideas. Please feel free to ask any more info that I've forgotten to provide. Thank You for your help in advance. Here's the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p5 #2: Fri Apr 24 18:44:13 CEST 2009 r...@lildevil.datawlan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIREWALL Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (996.85-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 536854528 (511 MB) avail memory = 511340544 (487 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0505): Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length:0 0/2 [20070320] acpi0: COMPAQ RACEBAIT on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) unknown: I/O range not supported Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x240-0x243 on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci_link0: apparently invalid index 0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 sym0: 1510d port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xc6effc00-0xc6ef,0xc6efe000-0xc6efefff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci0 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym0: [ITHREAD] sym1: 1510d port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xc6efdc00-0xc6efdfff,0xc6efc000-0xc6efcfff irq 11 at device 1.1 on pci0 sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym1: [ITHREAD] fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x2800-0x283f mem 0xc6efb000-0xc6efbfff,0xc6d0-0xc6df irq 15 at device 2.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82555 10/100 media interface PHY 1 on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:50:8b:ee:d2:d6 fxp0: [ITHREAD] vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x2c00-0x2cff mem 0xc500-0xc5ff,0xc6cff000-0xc6cf at device 3.0 on pci0 pci0: base peripheral at device 4.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x3000-0x300f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pcib1: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 ida0: Compaq Smart Array 431 controller port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xc6fff000-0xc6ff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci3 ida0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ida0: [ITHREAD] ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=1.22 idad0: Compaq Logical Drive on ida0 idad0: 34727MB (71122560 sectors), blocksize=512 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: Standard PC COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] sio1: Standard PC COM port port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A sio1: [FILTER] cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xe8000-0xedfff,0xee000-0xe pnpid ORM on isa0 ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 ppbus0: [ITHREAD] plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ppc0: [ITHREAD] sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
Reformatting external harddrive
After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD. Frankly, I just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the disk. The command $ /dev/da0 gives the following output: *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 625137282 (305242 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 0/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? wake on lan works before any OS is started, actually before computer is powered up - as it's made to power up computer by LAN Like normal, you've completely missed the point. I will try not to scream at you. I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Wojciech - I get so disappointed, you seem to mislead people more than the rest. I strongly encourage you to read into the topics BEFORE you post to the mailing list. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
--On May 11, 2009 8:06:41 PM -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan So unless you're running CURRENT, it doesn't look like you're going to have any success trying to get it to work. Even if you have 8 CURRENT, you'll still need to figure out if your NIC is supported yet, or write the code yourself if you have that capability. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
Am Montag, den 11.05.2009, 19:11 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. if you want limited system - yes If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not very 'limited' to me. Please do correct me: Only Graphic Cards by nVidia are a problem on amd64, everything else can be run via OpenSource drivers (?!) Greetings Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Processors
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.net wrote: If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not very 'limited' to me. Please do correct me: Only Graphic Cards by nVidia are a problem on amd64, everything else can be run via OpenSource drivers (?!) nVidia was just an example. Yes, the nv driver will do the job, but 3D is lacking. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: --On May 11, 2009 8:06:41 PM -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan So unless you're running CURRENT, it doesn't look like you're going to have any success trying to get it to work. Even if you have 8 CURRENT, you'll still need to figure out if your NIC is supported yet, or write the code yourself if you have that capability. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying Paul, That's excellent news, and I will remember this as something to look forward to. Seems to be a very important thing to many people and I'm glad we're moving that way. Thank you, Paul for the update. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fdisk: class not found
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pietro Cerutti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Saifi Khan wrote: | Hi all: Hi Saifi, | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. | | Should we write new partition table ? [n] y | fdisk: Class not found | | When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. | | What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ? This comes from geom. See geom(8). Hi Pietro: Does this imply, geom_mbr needs to be loaded, if one is using the Fixit# (DVD/Live) console ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
