Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again..

2001-12-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > > bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since > > 4.4-RELEASE. :) When I see the constant "who put another > > three KB into the kernel and thus broke release?" against the > > "9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the

Re: WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!

2001-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
> This is the message that popup just before the kernel load, and at the beginn > ing of the boot process, > there is another strange message "no /boot/loader". > > Do you know what does it mean? It means you deleted, renamed or moved /boot. Don't do that. -- ... every activity meets with op

Re: DLS360 and SMP

2001-11-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > Just got my hands on a brand new DL360 from compaq. (Dual 1G Procs with > a gig of ram). Loaded FreeBSD 4.4 on it from the CD and made a custome > SMP kernel and low and behold it hangs at the APIC_IO. "hangs at the APIC_IO" doesn't mean anything. Copy the last few lines of kernel output

Re: rl driver: need help in adding new chipset

2001-10-25 Thread Mike Smith
> However, when the computer boots with the new kernel, even though it > recognizes the chip, it tells me: It's recognising the chip because you've told it to. But it looks like there are more differences than just the ID. > rl0: port 0x6000-0x60ff mem 0xe000-0xe000 > 00ff irq 11 at device

Re: 4.4-rc4 Install hangs on RAID controller

2001-09-18 Thread Mike Smith
I haven't been able to do any testing for the 4.4 release, unfortunately; time simply hasn't been available. However, the controller should work. Make sure that it's not in I2O mode, and that the array is not degraded or rebuilding. > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD-stable on a Micron NetFRA

Re: New kernel option CPU_ENABLE_SSE

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Smith
> >> Because not all i686'es support SSE. > > > >So detect it automatically based on the CPU feature bits. > > > >Needing a kernel compile option for this is unforgivably lame. If you > >want to be able to disable it, use a tunable. > > Perhaps; the "gist" I get is that the compile option is for

Re: New kernel option CPU_ENABLE_SSE

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > --R+My9LyyhiUvIEro > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:20:35PM -0400, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > > > Assuming CPU_ENABLE_SSE is a Good Thing, why not make it > > "default" with the "cpu I686_CPU" kernel config directive >

Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
> Hope this helps others on Dell, it would be great to get Dell to > offers these controllers instead of those crappy PERC controllers, but > these I guess are too expensive??? There's not much more subjective than RAID controllers, except perhaps text editors. 8) I'm glad you're happy with th

Re: pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum

2001-07-29 Thread Mike Smith
> What's mean "pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum" ? It means that your PnP BIOS data has a bad checksum. We don't trust it in this case. Some vendors don't bother to compute the checksum for this structure; we are more conservative than Microsoft, and refuse to use the PnP BIOS in this case

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Smith
> So, someone wanting to implement this in FreeBSD isn't starting from > square one? That depends on how you number your squares. > Can the NetBSD stuff be fairly easily ported to FreeBSD, or is their VM > system too funky? It's just different. But no, the NetBSD work doesn't immediately tr

Re: Slow response time

2001-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > I am following 4.3-stable since I did a CD-ROM install of 4.3-release. A > few weeks ago I did build the world which succeeded in my opinion. > Additionally I upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0_4 and KDE 2.1.1. The problem is > that now sometimes the x-server takes ages to come up after 'startx' an

Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore?

2001-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> On 11-Jun-2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Hmmm. It seems like this thread has degraded to simple > > project-bashing so I'll not be a party to keeping it on life support > > any longer. > > I don't think this is the case at all. For whatever it's worth, it > doesn't appear that the stability

Re: FORTH: Modifying loader...

2001-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> I've been waiting for a FORTH-geek to pop his head up; I > have most of "nextboot" reimplemented... I've added "fwrite" > and "flseek" verbs. I've thought about kidnapping an > astronomer. 8-). > > The current problem is that the biosdisk.c doesn't contain > "write" code, and that the libstan

Re: CS4232 with pcm driver returns device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
> > If I specify > > device pcm0 at isa? port 0x534 irq 7 > > I get: > > mss_detect, busy still set (0xff) > pcm0 failed to probe at port 0x534-0x53b irq 7 on isa0 > > with > > device pcm0 at isa? port? irq? drq1 flags 0x15 You *should* just be able to use the PnP BIOS. However: > pnpbi

proc->pstats / SIGVTALRM

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
In fielding a question from someone regarding what appears to be SIGVTALRM sniping on their system, I noticed that the pstats structure (which holds the p_timer fields which are used to track interval timers) is outside the bzero-on-allocation region of the proc structure. Thus it seems to m

Re: 3ware & mysql, again

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith writes: > > > > > > I recall something about this on another FreeBSD list a week or so ago. > > > Supposedly there is a firmware update available that fixes this problem. > > > > It's not clear whether Raymond is talking abou

Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Smith
> I have been reading the instructions for tracking stable and what is > recommended in the way of procedures. It seems from this that it would be > extremely hard to follow these recommendations for a remote POP. IE moving > to single user mode and on the whole messing with the machine for seve

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
> :: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which > :: has the optimizer bugs. It's more common to use absurd gcc > :: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're > :: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc > :: doesn't ad

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
> Hmm, I just went through all of the mlx related files and none of them > changed between 4.2-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE. So it looks like there is > something more sinister going on. This is a known problem. I don't know what's up, and I can't reproduce it (as I don't have any of these cards).

Re: problem booting 4.3-RC1 (BTX problem)

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
This is a known bug in the SRC-U21 and SRC-U31 BIOS, for which there is no solution. You cannot use these controllers with FreeBSD. > There is a problem booting 4.3-RC1 on server with Intel Server RAID > Controller U2-1(SRCU21) with logical volumes created (without > logical disks everything i

Re: 3ware + 3dmd - how?

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Smith
> Thomas> there are some hints how to install and to run the 3dmd under > Thomas> FreeBSD? I'm able to run the program, but nothing happen when > Thomas> using a browser to get information about the RAID controller. > > Mike> I suspect you haven't made the /dev/twe0 device node; > > You know, t

Re: 3ware problems

2001-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
> The first time I did this I thought something was broken when I > watched the newfs output those duplicate super block locations. It was > about 10 seconds between each block! After a search of the FreeBSD > lists I found a reference to initializing the array, and just waited. > > On ttyv1 the

Re: NatSemi network cards

2001-03-17 Thread Mike Smith
> I have not been able to find any reference to this card in any compatibility > documentation for FreeBSD. Is it supported by 4.2, and if not, will 4.3 > support it? man 4 sis See also HARDWARE.TXT, which explicitly lists this card. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who ac

Re: FreeBSD 4.x and BSDi 4.x binary compatible?

2001-03-16 Thread Mike Smith
> :: Actually, on the same note, I'm planning on flying a 747 jet later > :: this evening, anyone know what I should watch out for? Any tips > :: for a smooth ride? > > Yeah, don't pack the AK-47 and Semtex in the hand luggage. ;-) > > Thanks Alfie, I'll make sure to ask you next time I need so

Re: [NFS] Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> At least from looking at the Linux 2.2.18 code, if you get EROFS back > from the Linux server, the actual set of access bits you get back won't > have the right bits set; "nfsd_access()" just jumps to "out:" if it gets > a "read-only file system" error, and that doesn't set "*access" to the > re

Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > I strongly suspect its an IRQ conflict. Every problem of this sort > > that I've seen with the A7V has been an IRQ conflict, including the > > problem I had with my own. Specificly I had to hard set the IRQ on my > > NIC through the PCI management section of the bios. ... > It certainly is an

Re: AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1600

2000-12-29 Thread Mike Smith
> harddrive while running FreeBSD. The controler reacts on this with a wild > beeping and beeping does not stop until the array has been rebuild or > checked on consistency. But there was no message of any kind of error or > drive failure or that the controler moans due some drive failures. Is thi

Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Peter Lai wrote: > > So use ext2 or some other FS for your freebsd slices! > > Has anyone actually validated this as a solution? Installation using this as a technique would be very difficult. You'd also need a -current loader with ext2 support. I do not consider it a s

Re: Anyone tried fresh 4.2-RELEASE buildworld ?

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Smith
> > I'm stuck in a compiler error (signal 4) while trying "make buildworld" in a > > fresh 4.2-RELEASE installation. I sent a PR already, but I would like to > > know if anyone here has gotten 4.2-RELEASE fresh installed (I mean, not > > cvsup'd) and build world'd. > > It seems very much to me as

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
> As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires > an fdisk

Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
> i'm not entirely sure i understand. "pnp o/s = no" causes the bios > to assign an irq to the pcic controller, meaning the pcic controller > raises that interrupt on insertions/removals, but the driver, > operating in polling mode, never clears the interrupt so the machine > wedges trying to ser

Re: IDE RAID?

2000-11-12 Thread Mike Smith
> I'm going to install a new FreeBSD server and I'm looking into an > Ultra-ATA 100 RAID solution. You should be more worried about functionality than buzzword-compliance. ATA-100 isn't really all that important in the scheme of things here. > So far, my searches on Dejanews seem to > indicate

Re: i386/20379

2000-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
> > On the other hand, there *is* an easy workaround to turn them off, so in > > the worst case we would have an escape route. > > > > Jordan, what's your feeling on this? I don't have a 450GX board to test > > with. 8( > > I feel it looks like a small but smelly hack and I also have bad > fe

Re: i386/20379

2000-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
> Forwarding this to stable, as I've sent it to current by mistake.. > > At Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:14:49 +0900, > I wrote: > > > > Would someone take a look at i386/20379, which adds support for Intel > > 450GX chipset? > > > > The fix is simple enough to get into 4.2-RELEASE. Intel 450GX used to

Re: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi

2000-10-31 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:12PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > All right, I saw I was false in using bootp ... :-( > > One question about diskless booting. How to boot FreeBSD > 4.0, with out > /boot/loader to have properly libkvm working ? Typica

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/twe twe_freebsd.c twe_tables.h tweio.h twe.c twe_compat.h twereg.h twevar.h twe_disk.c

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > > Hi, > I just got a new batch of 3Ware 6200s I plan to deploy for RAID1 > systems. I installed the card and 2 Quantums into an existing test system > > 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #1: Mon Oct 30 13:42:15 EST 2000 > > i.e. post twe commits. At boot up time, I get > > tw

Re: HEADS UP! MFC's

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Smith
> > There are some things which are broken in -stable that need to be > fixed (alpha booting, e.g.). We'll try to leave the world a better > place for our efforts. -stable world builds, installs and boots on my pws433 as of earlier today (with dfr's ata fix). -- ... every activity meets with

Re: PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE

2000-10-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > Its a shorter PCI card than the others, single channel, SCSI > > LVD. It has OK performance. I am currently using it in a > > RAID0+1 type config. > > Where can I learn more about the pitfalls? I have a model 466 > waiting to get employed (RAID5 config with three IBM drives) and > get very

Re: Signal 4 while compiling 4.1.1

2000-10-01 Thread Mike Smith
> I just compiled Gimp on the same system without any hitches. Other > programs as well. I also ran memory tests and verified the > motherboard's temperature via the BIOS and visually checked the fans. > > It's my belief that within the last three weeks new code was inserted > into STABLE that

Re: More panics (different hardware)

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
Please press the 'scroll lock' key to scroll upwards and report the real error message. Before you post it, take a few minutes to check the handbook section on kernel debugging and try giving us enough information to actually help you. You wouldn't ring your doctor up and say "Hey doc, I hur

Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
> > I don't change change my mind (this change is not needed), but here is > yet another aspects. > > jkh> Agreed - vnconfig is supposed to load the vn module and does, > jkh> at least, in -current. > > However, this commit maybe assumes that if somebody want to do "make > release" of 5-current

Re: Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and "couldn't map register window"

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> At 10:03 AM -0700 2000/9/21, Mike Smith wrote: > > >>4) Add the line > >> controller asr > >>to your kernel configuration file and rebuild/reinstall your kernel. > > When doing a "config -r KERNEL", I was told:

Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and "couldn't map register window"

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Smith
I've had a lot of requests for something to be done about this, and I've finally gotten a few minutes to make it happen. The fix for this has been committed to -stable, and there's a kit for 4.1-RELEASE users wanting to install on these adapters at http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/

Re: PNPBIOS and atkbd

2000-07-27 Thread Mike Smith
> > Since someone clued me in about using the PNPBIOS option to automate > some isa resource allocations I have been experimenting with it. I've > managed to remove most of the irq stuff from my kernel configuration > file, apart from a few culprits. The main one is the keyboard and > mouse. The

Re: Promise-66 RAID

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
> > If you want a supported ATA RAID solution, see www.3ware.com. > > I'm curious how well the 3ware cards work under FreeBSD feature-wise? Can you > hot-swap drives (assuming you have an IDE hot-swap frame and cartridge like > Promise cards support)? The 6x00 series cards support hotswap. Yo

Mylex 160/170/352/2000/3000 driver available

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mylex 160/170/352/2000/3000 driver available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:18:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm

Driver for Adaptec/Dell/HP PCI:SCSI RAID adapters available

2000-07-23 Thread Mike Smith
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Driver for Adaptec/Dell/HP PCI:SCSI RAID adapters available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:53:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Color ls

2000-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:31:47PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yes. Any program that expects colour to work. > > In what sense? The color codes are absorbed by xterm and it > looks like it probably does without doing color stuff. Do you > know of a program whi

Re: Color ls

2000-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color > > joe@cuddy[504]: vi > > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type > > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability > > :q > > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a > > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_

Re: Synching my src...

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Smith
> > > > This is a pet peeve of mine. Freebsd-stable is supposed to be the mailing > > list that is required reading for anyone tracking stable, where all useful > > information related to tracking stable is to be found. > > > > However, the list is increasingly such a high-volume, low signal-to

Re: ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset?

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
> We are wondering if we should expect any problems with the chipset > in subject? You will need 4-stable to run correctly on this chipset in SMP mode, 4.0-release has problems with APIC initialisation. > How about the Adaptec 7892 SCSI? Should be fine. -- ... every activity meets with opposi

Re: Dump takes ages on SCSI. (several times faster on IDE)

2000-07-03 Thread Mike Smith
ck-and-forth handshaking, which you don't get with IDE disks. If you have the WCE bit set on the drive in question, it will go faster. The fact that SCSI commands are more expensive than IDE commands is also significant given that dump I/O is performed one page at a time. -- \\ Give

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
> * Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000605 16:58] wrote: > > > > > Well, it would be nice to auto-load or unload any module that is needed. > > > not just ethernet and fs types. That's basically the idea. Say, if you > > > load a driver that uses so

Re: 3.4-STABLE -> 4.0-RELEASE upgrade: unable to mount root partition

2000-06-03 Thread Mike Smith
rmatting your drive There are no tools to do this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: -CURRENT Mylex on stable?

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Smith
> > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | > I'm missing where the end result of > | > diff/patch differs from the files themselves. It's a nice exercise, but > | > kind of a PITA when you're not

Re: -CURRENT Mylex on stable?

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Smith
> > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | 1) Get the diffs. > | > | You will need a CVS repository, or use the cvsweb interface > | at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi to extract the diffs. > | Note that ml

Re: console disappears after reboot

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Smith
t that won't fail in the same fashion that the earlier syscons probe did. There have been some changes in syscons in 4.0 which may make it more generous in dealing with your video adapter, but if syscons is not attaching to your vide hardware, or the keyboard controller in these systems is failin

Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Smith
a little > while to implement, unfortunately. (Just to continue talking to myself) - The reason I never ran into this, I realised, is that I did all my work on the 2.x firmware in Alpha systems which have an 8k page size. With a 64k d_maxio, you'll never see more than 9 segments.

Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Smith
( Ok. I know how I'm going to have to deal with this; the problem is that we only use 16 of the 17 available S/G segments (so I can pack the S/G tables without crossing page boundaries). This is going to take a little while to implement, unfortunately. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you fe

Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Smith
y supports a very small number of scatter/gather segments (17). It looks like someone's trying to do a non-page-aligned 64kb transaction there and we're overflowing. Addressing this is probably going to require a driver patch. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a d

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
> > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | If that's what they say, I'd be inclined to believe them. Since I've > not > | encountered any fatal problems with the 2.x firmware, I can't suggest > | t

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:13:37 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >You leave out "how well you want it to perform" as well. All other > >things being equal, the PCI:SCSI adapters will give you better bang for > >your buck. > > Out of curiosity, how w

Re: amr still seems to have issues.

2000-04-21 Thread Mike Smith
> * Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000420 11:39] wrote: > > > Hi, we're running 4.0-stable as of Sat Apr 15 18:39:08 PDT 2000 > > > which include the recent amr fixes which we were hoping would cure > > > the lockups with amr. Unfortunatly we are now

Re: SlickEdit for FreeBSD (fwd)

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Smith
o work correctly. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: Custom boot disks

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Smith
the kernel on kern.flp, which > you can mount as a normal floppy. Don't forget to gzip it first, as it probably won't fit otherwise. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and h

Re: "dangerously dedicated"

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
> >>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on > MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other > MS> way to do this pr

Re: "dangerously dedicated"

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your ignorance. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \

Re: booting 3.x from CD?

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
oot_ddb" managed to break into a > debugger where I would be able to at least try to have a closer > look at this problem. > Does somebody have any ideas what I could try out? Sounds like you've got BIOS problems. Look for an upgrade from your vendor, and then start breaking do

Re: K6-MTRRs

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Smith
ested them and discovered they didn't work? At any rate, you're encouraged to talk to the author/maintainer of the code, Brian Feldman (copied). If you can make it work, wonderful. > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Well, I know that they are

Re: console disappears after reboot

2000-01-13 Thread Mike Smith
the new one, or maybe some signal (a HUP?) > > refreshes a getty. > > You're totally off the track. His problem is that the kernel (or the > boot loader) decides that there is no built-in console and uses a > serial console instead. This has nothing to do with init(8). I guess

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-12 Thread Mike Smith
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hat

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
> Hu... I can easily cram boot0, boot1 and boot2 in there, but loader > is a bit to big at 128K bytes :-(. You don't need the loader for most 'embedded' applications. Boot2 will do you fine. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tel

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
tandards at this level, you'd have to duplicate the unix-specific BIOS for every piece of hardware out there. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lif

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really be fairly obvious. In all reality, new BIOS features are actually directed towards the same sort of problems that we're facing, even if the process is driven largely by Microsoft. Take a look at eg. ACPI to see what I mean.

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
so far beyond a joke in most situations that we don't even want to pretend in public that it's done, let alone talk about supporting it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'

Re: Temperature Findings

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
need to upgrade your cooling arrangements, and you've been told _that_ already too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL

Re: Panic: Out of mbuf clusters

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
sh, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD )

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
> Does FeeBSD/Alpha run reliably on an AXPpci33 with Quantum > Fireball (SCSI)? Yes; we do test installs onto one (although I think it has a 2GB Empire in it at the moment, the furball was too small). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he

Re: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
n guessing at which device to use. Much more robust. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Mylex RAID controller driver update

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > The third update to the Mylex PCI:SCSI RAID controller driver for > > FreeBSD-3.x-STABLE is now available at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/mlx-stable-991221.tar.gz > > > &

Re: /boot/loader fails to reset AMD K6-II FPU

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Don't use the "custom" install option for 3.4

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
also sure that this is a completely > > Will the 3.4 CDs be pressed with this bug? Yes; we only just hit the this-year window last night with a few minutes to spare. I _did_ manage to work around the "can't boot on some ATAPI CDROMs" bug for CD #1, if that's any cons

Re: mountd and rpc.statd won't run

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
inations. Give us something more to work on. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith once wrote: > > > > A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would > > > not boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say: > > > "Read Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd

Re: Netgear FA410TXc

1999-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
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Bugfixed AMI MegaRAID driver for -stable available

1999-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: printer problems using 3.4RC kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> thank you, > > Roger > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to f

Re: kernel compile succeeds but is unusable, take two

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
nk with this line. > # pseudo-device pty 16 Taking pty's out is a bad idea too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\

Re: kernel not patching?

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
ompile the kernel, it compiles this one > module... and this global variable is referenced. When I then search > for this string (by lessing the kernel and searching for dgilbert), I > can't find it in the kernel's image. What's up? Module != kernel -- \\ Give a man a fish, a

Re: StarOffice 5 on a SMP system..... or Applixware...

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
the source ourself? It's not "a port from the Linux one"; Applixware builds for about a dozen or so platforms, and the FreeBSD port has equal status with the rest of them. As I've already stated above, it already has O2k support. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him f

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
need a system drive. You will want one anyway; swapping onto a RAID5 array is a pretty lame idea. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
I recompile the installation -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Signal 11 on 3.3 installation

1999-09-25 Thread Mike Smith
ld be sent to hackers or current? No. You haven't included anything like enough information yet for the report to be at all useful. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EM

Re: softupdates in latest build?

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
> At 11:29 AM -0700 1999/9/6, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'll say it again; read what has already been said. Most of us are > > heartily sick of your side of the argument, and you're not likely to > > get many useful responses while you continue to display

Re: Kernel fails to compile today...

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
ear about it. Er. In the example above you say "is broken when APM is enabled, works when APM disabled". This is the result I expect. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel fails to compile today...

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
everything works fine. I'm using a 3.3-RC SMP-Kernel and with the current > settings I don't have any idle time displays in top and uptime. APM and SMP are almost guaranteed not to work correctly. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man.

Fixes for build problems with SMP-stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mike Smith
to get this into -stable ASAP for obvious reasons. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: -stable kernel build failed.

1999-08-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > 8/31 12:00 GMT+0800 cvsup to the newest src tree, but my -stable box > can't build a new kernel : My bad, patch error. Should be fixed now. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\

Re: On freezes in 3.2-Stable (fwd)

1999-08-13 Thread Mike Smith
done under other operating systems). You might want to qualify the issue a little further; specifically with regard to "typical memory controllers", logic families and fanout. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PR

Re: On freezes in 3.2-Stable

1999-08-13 Thread Mike Smith
ion options. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

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