Re: Installing FreeBSD from USB flash drive - some experiments

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Snow
Here's the steps I use to create a 1GB USB image: # dd if=/dev/zero of=bootable.image bs=1m count=1 oseek=1000 conv=sparse # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f bootable.image -u 0 # newfs -m 0 -o space -n /dev/md0 # mount /dev/md0 /mnt # cd /usr/src # make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt # make distribution DES

Re: Installing FreeBSD from USB flash drive - some experiments

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 13:55:58 Clifton Royston wrote: > I think I have found some limitations of the current sysinstall which > currently make it currently difficult to convert a working FreeBSD ISO > to an installable or live-disk flash image. Booting the kernel is > easy. Getting the re

Installing FreeBSD from USB flash drive - some experiments

2009-03-10 Thread Clifton Royston
It seems like questions about installing FreeBSD from a USB drive come up at regular intervals. With the low price of flash drives these days, it would be sort of nice to be able to offer a way for users to conveniently roll their own USB installer images, or even to offer them for download as

Re: Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Snow
Ivan Voras wrote: I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup / is it true? I'm using about several readonly nullfs mounts per jail:

Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?

2009-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
hi, I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup / is it true? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

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Re: SCHED_ULE + SMP Phenom freeze [SOLVED]

2009-03-10 Thread Michal Varga
Just a quick success report - kern/120138 does indeed solve the Phenom X3 SCHED_ULE problem. Attached patch against recent -STABLE in case someone else runs into it in the near future: --- sys/kern/sched_ule.c.orig 2008-12-08 05:07:30.0 +0100 +++ sys/kern/sched_ule.c2009-03-11

Re: SCHED_ULE + SMP Phenom freeze

2009-03-10 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Timothy Brown wrote: > I had the same problem. I searched the FreeBSD problem report database and > came across this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120138 > > After manually applying the patch and recompiling the kernel, I am able to > boot w

Re: SCHED_ULE + SMP Phenom freeze

2009-03-10 Thread Timothy Brown
Michal Varga wrote: > > Guys, I'd like to point out a still present (rather serious I guess) > problem with SCHED_ULE, possibly triggered when Phenom X3 CPUs are > used. > I had the same problem. I searched the FreeBSD problem report database and came across this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/q

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

2009-03-10 Thread ian j hart
On Monday 09 March 2009 21:00:20 ian j hart wrote: > On Monday 09 March 2009 06:08:41 Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:05:12PM +, ian j hart wrote: > > > On Sunday 08 March 2009 02:36:42 Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 05:17:57PM +, ian j hart wrote

Re: cd ripping to flac

2009-03-10 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:12:28AM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Howdy! > I'd like to rip my cd-s to flac files using some > command line app, like cdda2wav or cdparanoia. > Using pipe to flac utility would be nice and the > way I'd take. What program acts in that matter? What does this have to do w

Re: computer with USB keyboard hangs in loader boot prompt after a time

2009-03-10 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hi. I have a machine with Intel DX58SO X58 mother board (no ps/2 ports). I've installed FreeBSD 7.1 on it without any problem and it works fine. Till I need boot from another device. I press 6 in boot menu, get loader prompt and the computer hangs after a time. Quite

computer with USB keyboard hangs in loader boot prompt after a time

2009-03-10 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Hi. I have a machine with Intel DX58SO X58 mother board (no ps/2 ports). I've installed FreeBSD 7.1 on it without any problem and it works fine. Till I need boot from another device. I press 6 in boot menu, get loader prompt and the computer hangs after a time. Quite random time. From second

ZFS root file system fun, flash USB, swap

2009-03-10 Thread Borja Marcos
Hello, I have a couple of questions, I'm using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.1/amd64. To avoid issues with sharing the disks with ZFS and UFS, I am using a USB pendrive on which I copy the /boot directory. My first problem is: the presence of the /boot/zfs/zpool.cache file is critical. Without it the

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-03-10 Thread Pete French
> > bce(4) is broken in stable, your best option is to revert to the > > driver in releng 7.1. > > Is anybody working on fixing bce(4) in stable? As far as > I can see in the repository, nothing happened recently. > The last commit in releng 7 was in December last year. I am slightly surprised

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-03-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Kostik Belousov wrote (on 2009-02-08): > Danny Braniss wrote: > > going through the logs, after it happened again, I got a glimps of this: > > > > Feb 6 18:00:13 warhol-00.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: bce0: discard frame w/o > > leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0) > > Feb 6 18:00:19 klee-0