Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > My main idea is that the present Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5 is a very > good menu . Instead of destroying its elegant structure , the already > available FreeBSD Boot Loader ( actually Kernel selection ) menu could be > improved

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: > I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels Eh? Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: set kernel=kernel.old boot IMHO, it shows that you can tell the loader about kernels. Having a kernel-choice sub-menu would be co

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: >> I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels > > Eh?  Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: > > set kernel=kernel.old > boot > > IMHO, it shows that you can tell t

MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread rank1seeker
I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then ~40 MB? I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when they are split I had to get rid of md1, to be able to boot with md0 as a root. Wh

Re: MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM, wrote: > I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then > ~40 MB? > I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB > Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when > they are split > > I had to get

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2011-05-16 Thread Lionel Garth Jones
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Re: MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread Neel Natu
Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM, wrote: > I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then > ~40 MB? > I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB > Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when > they are split > > I had to

Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Mark Saad
All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the kernel

Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Mark Saad
All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the kernel

Re: Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Sean Bruno
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 17:42 -0700, Mark Saad wrote: > Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the "|" for 1-2 mins . > Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner "freebsd > 7.3-release etc etc etc" . This delay is about 1-2 mins as well. This looked like the "memory check" in my tes

Re: Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/16/12 5:42 PM, Mark Saad wrote: All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Onc