Re: 6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Jul-01 08:02:56 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: I've just acquired a couple of old Compaq Armada laptops. I can successfully install 6.1-RELEASE but the system won't boot from the HDD: The MBR menu displays but pressing F1 (the FreeBSD partition) just beeps. Pressing F3 (the Compaq

graid3 configure on 6 stable

2006-07-01 Thread Bradley W. Dutton
Hi, I just tried 'graid3 configure -a' on a degraded array and received the following: panic: lock geom topology not exclusively locked @ /usr/src/sys/geom/raid3/g_raid3_ctl.c:105 Thanks, Brad ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bug in ata (ata-all.c) driver

2006-07-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 30 June 2006 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a little bug (probably) in sys/dev/ata-all.c which somehow corrupts device parameters structure. When I first did atacontrol list device info about ad0 looked like this: Master: ad0 Maxtor 6Y080P0/YAR41BW0 ATA/ATAPI revision 7

6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM 2 x Xeon 3.0 HTT GDT RAID5 - how?

2006-07-01 Thread ASTESIN
Dear FreeBSD gurus, can anyone point me at a good FM where process of _proper_ setting up FreeBSD 6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM machine w/ 2 x Xeon CPU is described? It also has ICP (former GDT) RAID controller w/RAID-5 configuration (iir0 device). Purpose: just Apache + mod_perl + MySQL 5.x

High vmstat, filesystem unresponsive then hang 6.1 Stable

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
I believe this may be related to the NFS issues mentioned recent, but hopefully I may have captured enough info to help others troubleshoot.. I got the header of some ps commands.. and when was about to do full listing of the same ps commands to files.. the machine hung up. The machine is 6.1

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
John Hay writes: I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the server from 5.x to 6.x. It confirms the same we are