Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Hullo, I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc on powerpc? Thanks, Peter

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Normal behavior of a disk that was forced to spin down using hdparm -Y. > > Pity it didn't remain powered down, there's probably some other processes > > running that still cause disk I/O. > > Like [kupdate], bdflush or whatever? > > I've noticed that my disk is periodically accessed (about e

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Nov 8 13:46:34 yoko kernel: hde: ATAPI reset complete > > Normal behavior of a disk that was forced to spin down using hdparm -Y. > Pity it didn't remain powered down, there's probably some other processes > running that still cause disk I/O. Like [kupdate], bdflush o

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I now that sleep is not supported on pismos but could someone explain me > this errors > > yoko:~ > snooze > zsh: alarm snooze > yoko:~ > Easy: it won't sleep. Period. [...] > Nov 8 13:46:34 yoko kernel: hde: ATAPI reset complete Normal behavior of a disk that was forced to spin down u

Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Must be yet another reason for the invisible cursor: atyfb uses > > the hardware cursor :-) Any idea why setting the cursor color sometimes > > won't work? The cursor color gets set pretty early, maybe the chip needs > > some more init, or it isn't idle at that stage? > > You're right. This is

Re: usb support

2000-11-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:36:31AM -0500, Chris Bryan wrote: > alright everyone, I've gotten a little farther. When I boot into yaboot, it > says "boot: " and then "Loading kernel..." but then complains that it > "can't find image". Wouldn't this be ramdisk.image.gz? Wouldn't this be > ramdisk.imag

Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard

2000-11-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Happens sometime, for reasons yet unknown. What seems to happen is > > > that the cursor changes color to black. Feel free to look up where > > > the cursor color gets set, and pepper the fbcon code with printk to find > > > where it goes wrong. > >

Re: usb support

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Bryan
alright everyone, I've gotten a little farther. When I boot into yaboot, it says "boot: " and then "Loading kernel..." but then complains that it "can't find image". Wouldn't this be ramdisk.image.gz? Wouldn't this be ramdisk.image.gz? I've tried loading it manually after that, but still no luck P

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Hadess wrote: > Hi, > > This question has already been asked, check the mailing-list archive, thread > starts at: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0010/msg00463.html thank's Eric -- "La disparition de la carte perforée est un trou dont personne n

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Hadess
Hi, This question has already been asked, check the mailing-list archive, thread starts at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0010/msg00463.html Cheers Quoting Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > I just grab pmud from unstable archives, and installed it. > I now that s

pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-08 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hello, I just grab pmud from unstable archives, and installed it. I now that sleep is not supported on pismos but could someone explain me this errors yoko:~ > snooze zsh: alarm snooze yoko:~ > what I notice I heard the disk spinnig off, and stop the screen remain a

Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Happens sometime, for reasons yet unknown. What seems to happen is > > that the cursor changes color to black. Feel free to look up where > > the cursor color gets set, and pepper the fbcon code with printk to find > > where it goes wrong. > > However, the reason is known: the fbcon-* code dr

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-08 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > yep, it's in Debian/unstable a while now. > > pmud_0.7-3.deb, in section admin. > > > tahnk's I will deb-get install pmud-0.7.apt ;- > > Nope, just do 'apt-get install pmud'. (assuming your sources.list points > to unstable not stable). >