Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr.

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Shenton
I rebuilt my kernel in 5.3-STABLE from CVS, installed as normal. When I rebooted, the BIOS said No system disk, insert and reboot or something. Ug, hosed. Then I recalled I was trying to figure out how to write to a new ATAPI CD burner, but used one of the SCSI burner utils; it failed but I

Re: Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr.

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I booted from floppies, went to Wizard mode, did the Install FreeBSD Bootmanager. Rebooted. Now it halts at the prompt Default: F1 and beeps when I hit any key, like RETURN, F1, etc. Forgot to mention... When I was installing the FreeBSD MBR from

Re: 5.1-5.2

2004-01-16 Thread Chris Shenton
Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's in the release notes and in UPDATING...I have the feeling that if people won't read it in either of those two places, they won't read it in the errata either. :-p How 'bout putting it some place folks are likely to stumble upon it, like as a

Re: VIA EPIA-M10000 board just works with FreeBSD 4.8

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Shenton
lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86 is ok under x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap's via code. Excellent tip, thanks! I have been running my EPIA 6000 on CURRENT with an add-on ATI PCI video card because I couldn't get the built-in one to work with the standard XFree86 load. Thanks to your

Re: VIA EPIA-M10000 board just works with FreeBSD 4.8

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lemon sound works too, y'normal pcm(4). Hmmm, I see this in dmesg at boot: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 17.5 (no driver attached) but there's no /dev/pcm devices. There's also no /dev/MAKEDEV in FreeBSD-5.x so I'm confused about how I talk

Re: nscd for freebsd

2003-06-19 Thread Chris Shenton
Michael Bushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD? For DNS information, have a look at dnscache from the djbdns suite. Small, secure, fast. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/ If you're trying to cache other

Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Shenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) - but by now I'm used to Tivoli

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boot t ime.

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Shenton
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:21:46 -0800, Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jos I have the same problem with a Win2k system and a FreeBSD system Jos connected to an OmniCube 4-port switch, at rev. 1.5 (see the Jos bottom of the unit). Belkin says it's fixed in rev. 1.9 and is Jos willing to exchange

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Shenton
On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that now) the custom graphics cannot be. (yet) On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:12:48 +0930 (CST), "Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Re: Asus K7V boot failure

2000-04-28 Thread Chris Shenton
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:15:55 +0200, Jeroen Hogeveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jeroen Hey Chris and Jordan, I've got one too, you should however Jeroen disable your boot virus protection in the bios setup! Jeroen This will fix the problem you described. Jeroen Maybe something to mention in the FAQ,

4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes / [spin icon just twitches once or somethign] Here's what the 4.0-RELEASE kern.flp

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:02:14 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jordan Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some Jordan surgery on it along the following lines: Jordan mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Jordon rm /mnt/boot.config Jordon umount /mnt Jordan That should keep the

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:26:13 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike I'm seeing this too. Try booting without the floppy installed, Mike then when it bitches, insert said floppy and hit enter. ROFL, it worked. I'm pulling the install down the wire now. Many thanks! Mike Actually,

DJB: FreeBSD4 alt MTA trick considered harmful

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Saw this on a qmail list. DJB's not got the best bedside manner, but he's pretty good about preventing loss or damage to mail. What about supporting his /etc/mta implementation instead? --Chris (not the poster below) From: "D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI:

Re: Problem: 3.3-STABLE floppies: ep0/zp0, laptop falls off net

1999-10-18 Thread Chris Shenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) writes: 3C589* uses ep0 driver on pccard installers and pccard kernels of FreeBSD-stable, -current, and PAO. OK, maybe the hang problem was related to the ifconfig down or route delete. Maybe it's IRQ problem. Please choose another IRQ for PC-card from

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Chris Shenton
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +, Miguel Gilly mgi...@bonsai-studio.com said: Miguel I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer Miguel redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Miguel Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Miguel Unix cluster