Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image on my BIOS. When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI partition on it. Also known as a "

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 26 September 2011 13:07, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I may not have been entirely clear. The Android and the BIOS in my laptop seem > to have an issue. The Thunderbolt does not seem to block boot on other > systems, > just my T520. Oh I understood that. It was this comment: > I suspect that the

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> I suspect that the thumb  drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. > > I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. > > I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I91

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I suspect that the thumb  drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC Duo board. I'm going to try dumping a Linux distro on this U

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image > on my BIOS. > > When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the > partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI > par

Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
I agree, the lack of a virtual/emergency terminal seems a bit silly. I'm not sure about the cons25 versus xterm stuff - you're not the first person to report this. Guys/girls/other (Hi SF!) - why is this? :) It shouldn't be that hard to submit a patch to enable those extra vtys? Adrian

FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi all, I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image on my BIOS. When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI partition on it. It however doesn't even get to the point where it fai

Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-25 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > Next thing I did was try to recompile the kernel to streamline it and add > features I want compiled in, such as ipfw and dummynet. Alas, I saw no sign > of the BSD-licensed Clang compiler, for which I've waited for many years (I > can't b

Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-25 Thread Brett Glass
All: Just spent an afternoon and evening experimenting with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2. Overall reaction: so far, it's been pretty stable and responsive, but I'm concerned that it may have substantially increased memory and CPU requirements relative to previous versions. The new installer, while it's

[PATCH] dtrace crashes when trying to trace fbt probes without CTF data

2011-09-25 Thread Ryan Stone
I get a panic if I try to run a dtrace script that uses an fbt probe from a module that does not have CTF data. The polling patch resolves the issue for me: Index: sys/cddl/dev/fbt/fbt.c === --- sys/cddl/dev/fbt/fbt.c (revision

Re: 9-stable: My AR5B95 not reconized anymore.

2011-09-25 Thread Jakub Lach
20110331: ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both

Re: 9-stable: My AR5B95 not reconized anymore.

2011-09-25 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, arrowdodger. You wrote 25 сентября 2011 г., 19:58:02: > Hello. I've updated my 8-stable installation to 9-stable and now there is no > ath0 device. I'm almost sure that it isn't caused by tweaks in my kernel > config file. I would be glad to provide more information if necessary. Did you

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Chris Rees wrote: On 25 September 2011 14:01, Fbsd8 wrote: deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: [...] the reboot starts. Don't let the reboot occur until the memstick is removed. Do NOT alter! More often than not, (1) you keep floppies, optical discs, and memory sticks in your compu

Re: Need to force sync(2) before umounting UFS1 filesystems?

2011-09-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
2011/9/25 Lev Serebryakov : > Hello, Garrett. > You wrote 25 сентября 2011 г., 12:06:05: > >>     Talking to Xin yesterday, he was convinced that this was a >> filesystem//kern bug. Before I file a PR, I'm wondering if anyone else >> has seen this issue.. >  Yes, and I posted message about it in em

Re: bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0

2011-09-25 Thread Eric Masson
Fbsd8 writes: Hi, > Fixing burncd should be a priority It's not broken, so it doesn't need to be fixed. burncd has been designed to work with the old ata stack, when using new cam based ata stack, just use cdrecord. It deserves an entry in the release notes, nothing less, nothing more. Éric Ma

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:49 -0500 > Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> > More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: >> > >> > There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 >> > (or RC1?) without wiping out BE

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >>> More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: >>> >>> There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to >>> BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? >>> >

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:49 -0500 Antonio Olivares wrote: > > More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: > > > > There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 > > (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? > > > > For instance, user might have built man

9-stable: My AR5B95 not reconized anymore.

2011-09-25 Thread arrowdodger
Hello. I've updated my 8-stable installation to 9-stable and now there is no ath0 device. I'm almost sure that it isn't caused by tweaks in my kernel config file. I would be glad to provide more information if necessary. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org ma

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 September 2011 14:01, Fbsd8 wrote: > deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Fbsd8 wrote: >>> >>> 6. At the "Complete screen" when the reboot option is selected the >>> cd/dvd drive should automatically open so the install media can be >>> removed just like sysinstall does. If disc1.iso or dvd.iso

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Fbsd8
deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: 6. At the "Complete screen" when the reboot option is selected the cd/dvd drive should automatically open so the install media can be removed just like sysinstall does. If disc1.iso or dvd.iso was installed to memstick and used to boot from to install the

Re: bin/160979: 9.0 burncd error caused by change to cd0 from acd0

2011-09-25 Thread Fbsd8
Jaakko Heinonen wrote: On 2011-09-24, Joe Barbish wrote: It seems that in 9.0 the cd/dvd/drive is now given a dev name of cd0 where in all previous releases it was acd0. Tried to use the system burncd command in 9.0 and got this error msg burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCGETBLOCKSIZE): Inappropriate ioctl

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Antonio Olivares
> More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: > > There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 > (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? > > For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and > not want to rebuild everything.

Re: Need to force sync(2) before umounting UFS1 filesystems?

2011-09-25 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Garrett. You wrote 25 сентября 2011 г., 12:06:05: > Talking to Xin yesterday, he was convinced that this was a > filesystem//kern bug. Before I file a PR, I'm wondering if anyone else > has seen this issue.. Yes, and I posted message about it in embedded@ (Message-ID <1175277342.20110

Re: ath / 802.11n performance issues and timer code

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 24 September 2011 13:13, Alexander Motin wrote: > OK, but how taskqueue related to the timer? Taskqueue uses SWI that are > called in separate thread and except "swi4: clock" AFAIR they are not > anyhow related to the timer. What about possible effects on the scheduler? Is it possible that on

Re: Need to force sync(2) before umounting UFS1 filesystems?

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Now that you mention it, yes. adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: There is no upgrade function. How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and not want to rebuild everything. Other issu

Need to force sync(2) before umounting UFS1 filesystems?

2011-09-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi, I've been doing builds with FreeNAS recently on 9.x-BETA2 machines recently and I've noticed that I need to add 2 'sync's prior to each umount command in the nanobsd scripts when running repeated builds, otherwise it fails with: umount: unmount of /scratch/freenas/obj.amd64/_.mnt failed: D