[ Based on limited previous experience of such panics ]
1. The kernel boots from wherever GRUB or the DCA is told to load the
OS from. This loads some bits from (a filesystem in) disk or network
into RAM and starts executing.
2. The kernel internally calls vfs_mountroot() to re-mount
Brent Jones wrote:
Odd question maybe, but has there been any talk of porting the PF
firewall from the OpenBSD project to OpenSolaris?
It's actually a very valid question. I can only give you odd answer (my
apologies): Yes, there were :)
Are you interested in porting it over ?
v.
OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of July 29, 2008:
Current ON Build release: b95 (stable)
1. OpenSolaris 2008.11 Live CD Preview (b93, GNOME 2.22.2)
2. Solaris Express: Community Edition CD/DVD (b94, GNOME 2.22.2)
3. SchilliX 0.6.7 (b92)
4. BeleniX 0.7.1 (b93, KDE 3.5.9)
5. NexentaCore 1.0.1
So on both Solaris 8 x86 and Solaris 10 x86/AMD64 (s10u5 ) I see a
bootpath device provided to the boot software in some file. Except
with OpenSolaris which does not seem to have such a thing.
OpenSolaris (Solaris Nevada) on an UFS root should continue to use
a bootpath property in
Hello All,
(first, sorry about the crosspost!)
If I install a new opensolaris 2008.5 system, is it possible to upgrade it to
snv_91 instead of the latest? (snv_93)
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Hi,
I find man pages for sytem calls are empty in opensolaris 2008.05, then I
updated SUNWman package to pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED], but these man pages are
still empty.
The man pages are there, but the contents are empty.
For example:
man open.2
or more /usr/share/man/man2/open.2
You will be told
Xinfeng Liu wrote:
Hi,
I find man pages for sytem calls are empty in opensolaris 2008.05, then I
updated SUNWman package to pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED], but these man pages are
still empty.
The man pages are there, but the contents are empty.
For example:
man open.2
or more
Hi, Alan,
Thanks for the info.
(it was written by a third party whose license doesn't allow use in
OpenSolaris)
Do you know why solaris has it? Can we improve that? This issue makes
not convenient for developers.
Thanks,
Xinfeng
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Xinfeng Liu wrote:
Hi,
I find man
Xin-Feng Liu wrote:
Hi, Alan,
Thanks for the info.
(it was written by a third party whose license doesn't allow use in
OpenSolaris)
Do you know why solaris has it?
Because Solaris has a license to include it, and everyone who distributes
Solaris signs a contract agreeing to the license
