Re: Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr.

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Shenton
Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I booted from floppies, went to Wizard mode, did the Install > FreeBSD Bootmanager. Rebooted. Now it halts at the prompt "Default: > F1" and beeps when I hit any key, like RETURN, F1, etc. Forgot to mention... When I was installing the FreeBSD MBR f

Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr.

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Shenton
I rebuilt my kernel in 5.3-STABLE from CVS, installed as normal. When I rebooted, the BIOS said "No system disk, insert and reboot" or something. Ug, hosed. Then I recalled I was trying to figure out how to write to a new ATAPI CD burner, but used one of the SCSI burner utils; it failed but I susp

initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2() panic in 5-STABLE

2005-01-28 Thread Seán C . Farley
This is a re-request for help on an occasional panic I have been getting on a 5-STABLE system. The PR URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/75368 Currently, the system is not being used. It will be used to replace my 4-STABLE system once I get the panics to stop. This is the perfe

Re: kernel vm question

2005-01-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: > David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When the line is there, the compiler is probably smart enough to > > realize that 'x=y; y=x' is (usually) a no-op, so it optimizes away > > both statements. > Wrong. The compiler is free to optimize awa

Re: kernel vm question

2005-01-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, Jacques Fourie wrote: > > unsigned char *p = NULL; > > unsigned char v = 0x55; > > /* ... */ > > p = (unsigned char *)ip_output; > > /* ... */ > > v = p[0]; > > p[0] = v; > > /* ... */ > When the line is there, the compiler is probab

Re: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M

2005-01-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
Dave Myron wrote: It's not red but it is the PRI_RAID IDE connector. I have the controller set to IDE in the BIOS so it should act just as any other IDE controller (according to the manual and many other sources). I have two hard drives on the primary IDE (not on the controller) and a CD drive on t

Re: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
First thanks to all those that responded to this inquiry, it has given me a pointer to how wanted this is. Chris Faulhaber wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote: Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in p