error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've some server (a 2 years old HP NAT 1000s storage system) and I want to drop the installed W2k system and re-install it with FreeBSD 7.0R and later use it as a central backup-system with Bacula. The problem is that this server has no CD or DVD device, but can (theoretically) boot from

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthias Apitz wrote: > so I cam up with the idea to boot from that USB key I have used to > install 7.0-REL on that eeePC, i.e. the USB key works fine in any > laptop; on the HP NAT 1000s storage system it says: > > FreBSD/i386 > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel Hm. Strange. The boo

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, July 10, 2008 a las 03:01:54PM +0200, Oliver Fromme escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > so I cam up with the idea to boot from that USB key I have used to > > install 7.0-REL on that eeePC, i.e. the USB key works fine in any > > laptop; on the HP NAT 1000s storage system it s

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Werth, Volker
Volker Werth schrieb am 10.07.2008 15:07 _ Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 14:46 schrieb Matthias Apitz: > Hello, > > I've some server (a 2 years old HP NAT 1000s storage system) and > I want to drop the installed W2k system and re-i

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 03:17:16PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, July 10, 2008 a las 03:01:54PM +0200, Oliver Fromme escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > so I cam up with the idea to boot from that USB key I have used to > > > install 7.0-REL on that eeePC, i.e. the USB

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthias Apitz wrote: > I've created the USB key like this (more or less) and did not specified > or changed anything in the boot-sequence: > [...] > and again: the USB key works fine in the eeePC 900 and other laptops I > have; > > here is what is in /mnt/boot: > [...] OK, that looks goo

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 July 2008 14:46:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I've some server (a 2 years old HP NAT 1000s storage system) and > I want to drop the installed W2k system and re-install it with > FreeBSD 7.0R and later use it as a central backup-system with > Bacula. > > The problem is that th

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:52:31PM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2008 14:46:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've some server (a 2 years old HP NAT 1000s storage system) and > > I want to drop the installed W2k system and re-install it with > > FreeBSD 7.0R and later use it as

GPG encryption of binary sample requested.

2008-07-10 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could a few people please post to list saying they will private mail me (off list) some encrypted binary junk please ? If you have a Microsoft PC (or non BSD) to mail binary junk from, so much the better, but some BSD too would help. Examples: dd if=/dev/random of=junk cou

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-10 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Mike Makonnen wrote: Yes, libdisk is bad. GEOM_PART has been designed for use by installers. It can be interfaced faily easily. See gpart(8) for example. Is there documentation for the geom_part API somewhere (I couldn't find any) or do I have to look at gpart(

RE: massive interrupt storm

2008-07-10 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2008 5:37 PM To: Murray Taylor Cc: Sergey Babkin; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: massive interrupt storm On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:21:34PM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > We have variously