FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message- From: Murray Taylor Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off the machine What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0 Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of the physical pci bus 1 Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs show pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2 along with their associated physical busses. Any help greatly welcomed --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD make vs. GNU make
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 13:15:08 Bill Campbell wrote: The gmake program has many extensions which tend to be used in the gnu automake, autoconf, libtools system. I suspect that gmake will work with most non-gnu Makefiles, but the reverse is not true. This suspicion is not necessarily true. That is something I learned the hard way back when I was in college. I was doing all my development on FreeBSD in my dorm room but the target machine was Linux. Because I was naive, I didn't concern myself with which make I was using. And I hand created a Makefile for my project. I did this in my room and I was referencing the documentation for PMake (/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make) as recommended by the man page. The time of the week comes to move to the lab environment... and I copied my files there and saw a bug. So I started fixing it and ended up on a roll where I wrote a large portion of code. I saved the code, exited vi, and ran make. Well, some syntax in my Makefile and gmake did not agree. And rather than just erroring nicely, it zeroed out my source file and then errored out. I'd lost well over an hour of work which I never really did recreate to my recollection of it. Even though I have saved religiously while working, I have never bothered to commit the changed to the repository so it was all lost. Had I stayed in vi and run make in a subshell or committed my changes... well, can't go back and make better choices now. I've since moved on and that project collects digital dust somewhere... along with the circuit board it was meant to control. I wish I had kept the original Makefile so I know exactly what I did. But at the time I was so panicked that I rewrote it to work with gmake and just remembered to use gmake in my room as well. Anyway, I am rambling. We can't make the assumption that gmake is backwards compatible with any other form of make. Actually, we can demonstrate that it's not the case by trying to use gmake with ports... you will find that it fails with an error. At least with ports it's nondestructive. :) -Kevin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?
On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the whole retch-media enhanced web experience with them flaming into the pit of hell from which they came. But that's just my opinion. References: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like stocks prices ..etc. Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not getting picked up, and the big problem - none of the disks getting recognised. We have since tried a few things, one of which was removing all but one of the CPU's. If we do this, and boot with ACPI enabled, all is totally fine. All disks are found, and I receive no CPU panic error. So it appears to me that by disabling ACPI in an attempt to bypass the QUAD CPU problem, we are causing another issue behind the scenes. The root of the problem now appears to be, that if we have anything over 1 CPU, directly after the kernel is loaded (when booting from the CD), we receive the error message panic: madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38 Too High. The moment a second CPU to the machineit bombs out. --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the whole retch-media enhanced web experience with them flaming into the pit of hell from which they came. But that's just my opinion. References: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like stocks prices ..etc. Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. Flash is a decent media, but it just gets abused like any other form of web-based media. Same goes for Javascript, Java, and even HTML. Flash is just easier to abuse than Java and Javascript because of the tools and delivery of content (audio and video, etc). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
