iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, Now that I have my hands on a server that can boot iSCSI, I started to look into it. After figuring out what magic is needed in the dhcpd.conf (just add option root-path iscsi:target-iptarget-name) I can boot FreeBSD to the point that it can't find a root device, and assuming that

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 March 2007 07:34, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Now that I have my hands on a server that can boot iSCSI, I started to look into it. After figuring out what magic is needed in the dhcpd.conf (just add option root-path iscsi:target-iptarget-name) I can boot FreeBSD to the

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, Now that I have my hands on a server that can boot iSCSI, I started to look into it. After figuring out what magic is needed in the dhcpd.conf (just add option root-path iscsi:target-iptarget-name) I can boot FreeBSD to the point that it can't find a root device, and assuming

Re: Request to update hptmv driver

2007-03-16 Thread Steven Hartland
Steven Hartland wrote: The current version of hptmv in the source tree is very old now v1.12 (2005-06) vs current v1.14 (2006-3) and it contains some really nasty bugs. We've been running the latest version available from HighPoint + some additional fixes, to ensure multi card installs dont

pkg_check.py

2007-03-16 Thread Michel Talon
Hello, this is to announce version 1.0 of pkg_check.py, a python program to check the contents of /var/db/pkg, and the last piece of the puzzle in the programs trying to emulate portupgrade in a different way. It is available at: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkg_check.py always under BSD

One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread Derekj Tourneo
How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD This was on a CyberGuard LX firewall, running version 4.2 BSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin Using the boot CD, pick option 4 for single use mode going through the country and keyboard going to the repair mode

RE: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread David S. Madole
From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the install menu, using the live CDROM filesystem gave me a

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread Achim Patzner
On 16.03.2007, at 16:59, John Nielsen wrote: A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE card, which to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if any such cards are currently supported in FreeBSD, but that's a tangential question.) Maybe someone

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread Kip Macy
On 3/16/07, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16.03.2007, at 16:59, John Nielsen wrote: A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE card, which to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if any such cards are currently supported in FreeBSD,

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
David S. Madole wrote: From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the install menu, using the live CDROM filesystem