mini-howto: Grub on FreeBSD (UFS2)

hi, folks, I saw some questions on Grub for FreeBSD. Here I have a short mini-howto on how to use Grub on FreeBSD, which originated from the notes I took. Hope it can provide a tiny bit help. Thanks. Jiafu - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains

Re: mini-howto: Grub on FreeBSD (UFS2)

hd0,1,a)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded 5. Finally how to generate md5-encrypted password: Enter any Grub command prompt: grub> md5crypt /* call the md5 password encryption utility */ password: yourDesiredPassword /* passwd are re

Network config on FreeBSD 5.1 - Help!

As what have been pointed out, It may help if you comment out the lines in rc.conf as below: #ifconfig_vr0="inet6 hex address netmask 255.255.255.0" ipv6_enable="NO" #hostname= "..." #ppp_enable="YES" #ppp_mode="ddial" #ppp_nat="YES" #ppp_profile="bellnet.ca" sendmail

Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers

Actually, what matters eventually are the fans not the case. I often bought the cheap cases and replace their fans with ultra quiet double bearing fans (noise < 20 or 25db would be almost unnoticeable). neweggs and tigerdirect often have good deal for fans (but they charge for shipping). Compusa

Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help

Hi, folks, Rel 5.2.1 can't be installed on my machine due to APIC problems. The error message is like "ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY no interrupt". It is a Soyo motherboard "SY-P4VGA" with VIA VT-8235 south bridge. Debugging results using DDB ("show intrcnt") show no interrupts ever occ

Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help

John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:12 pm, Jiafu He wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Rel 5.2.1 can't be installed on my machine due to APIC problems. The error > message is like "ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY no interrupt". It is a &

Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help

John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 02 July 2004 12:02 am, Jiafu He wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:12 pm, Jiafu He wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > > > Rel 5.2.1 can't be installed on my machine due to APIC problems. The

Re: FreeBSD Custom Kernel

bsd hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I have a few basic questions regarding building a custom Kernel: (1) Once I configure, make and make install the custom kernel... it will get written to /boot/kernel. Now I have already made a backup of the working kernel. what I need to know is when

Re: Serial consoles and remote GDB

--- Rob Deker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > New to the list, so please bear with me if this is a question that's > been answered someplace before. I've been searching and can't seem to > find an answer. > > I'm doing some driver hacking w/ FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I've hit a spot > where