Hi Warren,
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
> For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
> good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
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On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
> scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it
wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weigh
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done
> and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR,
and the Linux partition where the bulk of it is installed).
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On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 *
> size of the RAM?
It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5*
to 2* installed memory is a traditional "works for most" value, but I
feel it's outdated for
On 2012.11.23 22:11, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop
> time!
For me it's usually *after* Christmas season, but whatever works :)
> I can't imagine
> that there is really that much different about the pricey ones to make
> t
On 2012.11.24 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready
> for production or should I wait a while yet?
This probably won't help much, but I wouldn't call any system
"production ready" until I've tested it as thoroughly as possible and
quali
Hi Ralf,
On 2012.11.24 17:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Perhaps later today I'll install 9.0 amd64. If possible I'll keep my
> Linux GRUB legacy. Can I use my menu.lst [1] and add a chainloader or
> something similar to boot FreeBSD from /dev/sda1?
I don't know if GRUB v1 allows that, on a multiboot s
On 2012.11.18 09:58, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>
> I probably should cc the hardward guys about this. first, see if it
> geta any traction here, tho. my tech guy got me a Delll 3010
> that has an "improved" [[meaning screwed up]] BIOS with some
> hardware mess called the UEF
On 2012.11.13 06:22, Gary Kline wrote:
> anybody know what im NOT doing?
running sshd ? :)
Have you installed it ? sshd is the server program, it is fairly
independent from ssh, the client program.
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On 2012.10.26 14:18, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
>> if there is a Drive in one of the HotSwap Bays the
>> PCI-Express controller is detected as ahci0 and the onboard is detected
>> as ahci1.
>> So Far i could have set some devices.hints entries to sort the scsi
>> busses. But the problem is that if the
On 2012.10.24 22:10, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>> On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>>>>
On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>>>> Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situati
Hi,
On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote:
> Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating
> a full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table?
I'm curious about what this is about. Could you refer me to an article
or a discussion where this iss
On 2012.10.08 18:22, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> 'cached' is not _technically_ exactly accurate, but you have the concept
> basically correct.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Robert. Maybe "shadowed" would be
have been a more accurate term. But "in-core" also has a nice ring to it!
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Hi,
I've seen the term "in-core" a couple times while reading up about BSD
disk labels. Does it refer to data that is cached in kernel memory ?
Context examples :
- fdisk(8) outputs "parameters extracted from in-core disklabel"
- bsdlabel(8)'s manual explains that the -n (dry run) parameter "do
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