Re: Fwd: mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes?

2010-04-17 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
If you want to make a bootable FreeBSD CD, take a look at freesbie in ports. That's what the software does. I that doesn't satisfy you, you can start look into creating one on your own. I have a couple of suggestions. mkuzip copies the disk image. You really WANT to unmount before running it; ot

Loading a KLM at boot time (issues)

2010-04-17 Thread Patrick Mahan
I am looking for some guidance and perhaps a method to debug an issue I am having with a KLM. For various reasons, I have to make use of random.ko instead of having it built as part of the kernel. As a result, I am adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf - random_load=yes # I have al

towards fixing intermingled dmesg

2010-04-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
Here is a simple extension of msgbuf_addchar that is supposed to allow to put N characters consecutively into msgbuf. The idea is very simple: atomically forward msg_wseq by N and then copy characters into the reserved space. Could you please check if this is implemented correctly and if it would

Bug with fixit live 8.0 memstick.img running on F1 after MBR

2010-04-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Hackers, Bug found with fixit live 8.0 memstick.img running on F1 after MBR : First I checked my PC BIOS boots OK: I copied 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img to a raw 2G USB stick, it boots fine, & one can go into fixit menu, using image on stick Next I fdisk partitioned an 8G stick & copied