Re: Dell gx280 and acpi problems

2004-09-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 27 September 2004 04:34 am, Danny Braniss wrote: for the short verions goto the end. On Thursday 23 September 2004 04:29 am, Danny Braniss wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 04:58 am, Danny Braniss wrote: could some acpi expert shed some light? -current panics

hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread John Von Essen
Unfortunately, I have inherited a Intel P200 with SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 with a 4Gb SCSI drive. I have to get the machine back up and running. Here is my dilemma and progress: I have a cpio archive on DDS-2 tape that is valid. I have been able to extract files onto a test disk with FreeBSD.

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Von Essen wrote: I have a new replacement 4Gb disk. With a FreeBSD boot CD I did a dd and was able to get the new disk setup with all of the old disks partition maps, boot data, etc.,. The new disk actually boots into SCO but fails because it only has 100Mb or so of

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
Oh, I love replying to my own posts :) On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Doug Russell wrote: Try addingconv=sync,noerrorto your dd line. If most of the data after the defect(s) can be read, you'll end up with an almost complete partition which will likely run. You can then fsck and restore

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread John Von Essen
Well, I was able to get a boot/install floppy made. Then install a fresh SCO. Then create recovery floppies, then boot with recovery floppy and try to cpio tape data to /mnt. However, in both the recover floppy and the real SCO system I have to configure the tape drive apparently. As of right

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Matt Emmerton
I believe DAT is what you want to tell SCO. -- Matt - Original Message - From: John Von Essen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: hacking SCO Well, I was able to get a boot/install floppy made. Then install a fresh SCO.

Re: remote debugging question

2004-09-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 September 2004 at 11:07:21 -0700, Jerry Toung wrote: Good morning list, I CAN connect to the target but the 'bt command return #0 0x in ?? () at the remote. That suggests that you're not connected. So this is what I am doing, hopefully somebody can tell me what I am