Re: Why does sysinstall still limits cylinders to 65535?

2008-05-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:52:06PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle > the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I > decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to > circumvent the outdate

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Peter Holm
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:23:11PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Peter Holm wrote: > >On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > > >>I wrote: > >> > >>>John Baldwin wrote: > >>> > Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't > reprod

Why does sysinstall still limits cylinders to 65535?

2008-05-25 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
Hello, I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch). I'm thinking about submi

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Holm wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, th

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Holm wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, th

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Peter Holm
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I wrote: > >John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >>Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't > >>reproduce > >>the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot > >>code makes > >>a v86 call, the loade

Re: What does system do after "Uptime: "?

2008-05-25 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gavin Atkinson wrote: | On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 09:58 -0700, Xin LI wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Gavin Atkinson wrote: |> | FWIW, there have been probably around 10 PRs in in the last few months |> | about this behavi

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Peter Holm
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I wrote: > >John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >>Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't > >>reproduce > >>the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot > >>code makes > >>a v86 call, the loade

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-05-25 Thread Unga
--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 23, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Unga wrote: > > When open an pdf has two types of scenarios in > FreeBSD: > > 1. When X run as a realtime-prio process, X go mad > and swallow up > > almost all of CPU cycles, making audio hiccups. > > > > 2. When X run

Re: Is it possible to create a directory under /dev?

2008-05-25 Thread Jille
Please note that unionfs still has a few bugs! You will need at least patchset p19 for mounting devfs below/above unionfs mounts. There is also a patchset p20, still experimental, you might want to try it. -- Jille Oliver Fromme schreef: Andriy Gapon wrote: > But, by the way, there is a (sli

Re: Is it possible to create a directory under /dev?

2008-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 23 May 2008 09:37:01 +0300 Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But, by the way, there is a (slightly) more valid reason to want to > >> create a directory under /dev, I recently had it. For one non-standard > >> third-party application I needed to create a link to existing devic

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, the loader/boot2/whatever swaps in/out a new set of registers via the v86 structure including the

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, the loader/boot2/whatever swaps in/out a new set of registers via the v86 structure including the eflags regis