Re: Problems Booting 6.0 RC1 on ia64
At 01:07 AM 10/23/2005, Joe Kelsey wrote: I am trying to boot up 6.0 RC1 on a brand new ia64 box. I have an ASUS A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3800. I have a DVD writer attached to the ATA bus and two SATA disk drives. On my x86 box (5.4), I download the 6.0 RC1 ia64 disc ISO images and burn them onto CD-ROM. I then take the new CD-ROM and put it in the ia64 drive. The system starts the boot process (with boot drive set to the DVD writer), but errors out and asks me to insert a valid boot drive. What have I done wrong here? If what you've typed is correct, you've mistaken the Itanium build for the AMD64 build of FreeBSD 6.0 RC1. Try downloading the AMD64 version and see how that fairs. Vinny Abello Network Engineer Server Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)300-9211 x 125 (973)940-6125 (Direct) PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" -- Mark Twain ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problems Booting 6.0 RC1 on ia64
I am trying to boot up 6.0 RC1 on a brand new ia64 box. I have an ASUS A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3800. I have a DVD writer attached to the ATA bus and two SATA disk drives. On my x86 box (5.4), I download the 6.0 RC1 ia64 disc ISO images and burn them onto CD-ROM. I then take the new CD-ROM and put it in the ia64 drive. The system starts the boot process (with boot drive set to the DVD writer), but errors out and asks me to insert a valid boot drive. What have I done wrong here? /Joe ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 rc1 guest under vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 on linux host (boot error)
Robin wrote: Hello all, I thought I'd give the new RC a whirl under vmware, after setting the guest to boot from the CDROM (which was the CD1 .ISO), shortly I recieved this error: http://xs.mw/temp/freebsd6rc1_vmware_boot_error.png (BTX halted) Yep. Me too. I googled this and it appears to be a known issue with the IDE CDROM driver in 6.0 Ralph ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:35PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >>Oops, it seems this feature is in 7-CURRENT only. If the appropiate > >>person is reading this, why isnt something like that available in 6? I > >>think it would be a very useful feature. > > > > > > What a shame. You made me glad for a very short time. This seemed to be > > the option I was looking for. Straight forward and understandable. > > > > It's not in 6 though .. so, any tips on another easy way? > > What about installing one of the compat ports and then removing it? Would it > take the old libraries with it? No, ports install in a different place. As I mentioned, libchk will tell you about unused libraries though. Kris pgpnhfxWDMdeW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>Oops, it seems this feature is in 7-CURRENT only. If the appropiate >>person is reading this, why isnt something like that available in 6? I >>think it would be a very useful feature. > > > What a shame. You made me glad for a very short time. This seemed to be > the option I was looking for. Straight forward and understandable. > > It's not in 6 though .. so, any tips on another easy way? What about installing one of the compat ports and then removing it? Would it take the old libraries with it? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 rc1 guest under vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 on linux host (boot error)
Sorry, I neglected to mention this is the AMD64 6.0 RC 1 Robin wrote: Hello all, I thought I'd give the new RC a whirl under vmware, after setting the guest to boot from the CDROM (which was the CD1 .ISO), shortly I recieved this error: http://xs.mw/temp/freebsd6rc1_vmware_boot_error.png (BTX halted) Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a vmware problem or a freebsd one? All help appreciated, cheers, Robin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 6.0 rc1 guest under vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 on linux host (boot error)
Hello all, I thought I'd give the new RC a whirl under vmware, after setting the guest to boot from the CDROM (which was the CD1 .ISO), shortly I recieved this error: http://xs.mw/temp/freebsd6rc1_vmware_boot_error.png (BTX halted) Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a vmware problem or a freebsd one? All help appreciated, cheers, Robin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? > > > Or will they not be used and if not, why? > > > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. > > After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at > least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific > about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system? That's the best there is for 6.0 (so run a full backup first). 7.0 has a 'make delete-old' target that removes known old files from your base system. I don't know if netchild has plans to backport it, but you could ask him. Kris pgp4z9CeJLBCz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On 22 Oct Mike Jakubik wrote: > On Sat, October 22, 2005 12:25 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > You can run make check-old in /usr/src. > > > Oops, it seems this feature is in 7-CURRENT only. If the appropiate > person is reading this, why isnt something like that available in 6? I > think it would be a very useful feature. What a shame. You made me glad for a very short time. This seemed to be the option I was looking for. Straight forward and understandable. It's not in 6 though .. so, any tips on another easy way? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: make.conf for 6.0
Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 22 October 2005 09:07 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >>My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) >>CFLAGS= -O -pipe >>COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe >> >>Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to >>set -O2 in this new version? > > > 6.0 uses -O2 by default. I upgraded my systems by doing a diff > between /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf and /etc/make.conf to get a > list of changes I made, copying over the new (6.0) make.conf, and re-applying > the parts of the diff that made sense. > > The 5.x and 6.x versions are different enough that my method is probably > easier than attempting to hand-update the old copy. mergemaster -p can help with this as well, FYI. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On Sat, October 22, 2005 12:25 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote: > You can run make check-old in /usr/src. > > > # check-old - Print a list of old files/directories in the > system. # delete-old - Delete obsolete files and directories > interactively. # delete-old-libs - Delete obsolete libraries > interactively. Oops, it seems this feature is in 7-CURRENT only. If the appropiate person is reading this, why isnt something like that available in 6? I think it would be a very useful feature. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On Sat, October 22, 2005 9:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? >>> Or will they not be used and if not, why? >>> >> >> Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. >> > > After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at > least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific about > how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system? You can run make check-old in /usr/src. # check-old - Print a list of old files/directories in the system. # delete-old - Delete obsolete files and directories interactively. # delete-old-libs - Delete obsolete libraries interactively. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: powerd problem on ASUS T9400 with 6.0RC1
On Friday 21 October 2005 08:54, Petr Holub wrote: > Dear all, > > I've encountered a problem with powerd which seems to be specific > to ASUS T9400 laptop. Powerd crashes after arbitrary amount of > time saying that its impossible to configure (usually, but not > necessarily) the maximum processor speed: You'll probably get a far better response if you report this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] All I can tell is that acpi_perf is causing problems for you (probably because you seem to have an ordinary pentium 3, not the mobile version), so try to disable it by adding the following line to /boot/device.hints. hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled="1" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: make.conf for 6.0
dick hoogendijk wrote: My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) CFLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to set -O2 in this new version? FreeBSD is moving towards "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing" by default [1], but there is nothing wrong with using "-O" only. On most platforms, there isn't much difference between -O and -O2, although -O2 does help more with the x86 architecture. -- -Chuck [1] Or, if we get lucky, perhaps the local compiler guru will choose to make the strict-aliasing option in GCC default to being off. Also, not everybody seems to agree with this, which is probably not surprising. :-) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: make.conf for 6.0
On Saturday 22 October 2005 09:07 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) > CFLAGS= -O -pipe > COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe > > Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to > set -O2 in this new version? 6.0 uses -O2 by default. I upgraded my systems by doing a diff between /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf and /etc/make.conf to get a list of changes I made, copying over the new (6.0) make.conf, and re-applying the parts of the diff that made sense. The 5.x and 6.x versions are different enough that my method is probably easier than attempting to hand-update the old copy. -- Kirk Strauser pgpKEpteMnBLy.pgp Description: PGP signature
SATA-II, Pentium-D, Intel SE7230NH1-LX Board
Hello, a short question: We will experiment with the following board: Intel SE7230NH1-LX It supports Pentium-Ds and SATA-II and we will try both. Anyone who already has experience with this ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 171 310137215 years to go ! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
make.conf for 6.0
My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) CFLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to set -O2 in this new version? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? > > Or will they not be used and if not, why? > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
