Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 11/02/2012, at 6:32, Joe Holden wrote: > On a related note - does the new installer have any kind of config file for > unattended installs a la sysinstall? No it doesn't, that said since the new release CD is a live file system (vs the old MFS on a CD kludge) it is much much easier to script

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread perryh
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas > wrote: > > is there another place to put options to atkbd and sc, like > > these ones: > > > > options ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP # specify the built-in keymap > > makeoptions ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.iso.acc > > ... >

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, What about the disk access is unaligned? Do you mean not sector aligned? or? This is a common problem people face doing disk IO analysis. The whole point about not allowing unaligned access is to make the disk IO path cleaner. It does mean that the filesystem code (and GEOM modules involved)

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Motin
On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work in 9? The machine boots up the installer wh

Disable DMA.

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Hi, In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work in 9? The machine boots up the installer when the CF-card is not present but when

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:33:08 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > > > various parts of the network stack being loadable, which is not > > as easy as it sounds, especially making them unloadable again > > currently ... > > Seems to me unloadability does not matter to th

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le ven 10 fév 12 à 14:56:04 +0100, Alexander Leidinger > écrivait : > > Hi, > > Hello, > > > The question is, is this enough? Or asked differently, why are you > > compiling a custom kernel in a production environment (so I rule out >

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:13:53 -0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > I've done this a few times. Me too, and others probably too, so let's end the waste of time and provide one officially. > The /boot/loader takes a _long_ time to suck in the 25 odd modules my > eeepc requires to load a completely modular

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:15:00 + "Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > > On 10. Feb 2012, at 13:56 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > during some big discussions in the last monts on various lists, one > > of the problems was that some people would like to use > > freebsd-update but can't as

9-stable : geli + one-disk ZFS fails

2012-02-11 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hello, I finally decided to 'play' a bit with ZFS on a notebook, some years old, but I installed a brand new disk and memtest passes OK. I installed base+ports on partition 2, using 'classical' UFS. I crypted partition 3 and created a single zpool on it containing 4 Z-"file-systems" : [root@

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

2012-02-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Feb 11, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > > On 11/02/2012, at 7:30 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> turns out that the HP machine has an HP branded (and with different >> firmware) raid controller >> that is not quite the same as the standard one. FreeBSD can't handle it and >> dies

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

2012-02-11 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
On 11/02/2012, at 7:30 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > turns out that the HP machine has an HP branded (and with different firmware) > raid controller > that is not quite the same as the standard one. FreeBSD can't handle it and > dies. > > Josh Paetzel may remember the exact type.. I forget..

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le ven 10 fév 12 à 14:56:04 +0100, Alexander Leidinger écrivait : > Hi, Hello, > The question is, is this enough? Or asked differently, why are you > compiling a custom kernel in a production environment (so I rule out > debug options zhich are not enabled in GENERIC)? Are there options > which

Re: 9-stable from i386 to amd64

2012-02-11 Thread Ruben van Staveren
Hi Randy, On 11 Feb 2012, at 10:58, Randy Bush wrote: > so do you have direct suggestion(s) on how to hack the system (while the > 32-bit kernel is running) so that i can boot the 64-bit kernel and get > the 64-bit world up? > > randy trying something nanobsd'ish in where you get a 64bit kernel

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/02/2012 01:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > This won't work for us. This requires manual intervention. When we > have a machine that panic's, we want it sitting at a ddb> prompt > indefinitely until an admin gets to it to find out what happened. There > may be some way to automatic

Re: 9-stable from i386 to amd64

2012-02-11 Thread Randy Bush
> These statements are false, esp. worrying is that they are > interwinned with some facts that get tilted to support false presumption. > > Kernel do not care about which interpreter is /libexec/ld-elf.so. > The path to the interpreter is specified in the binary itself. So if you > have 32bit bin

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread perryh
"Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > various parts of the network stack being loadable, which is not > as easy as it sounds, especially making them unloadable again > currently ... Seems to me unloadability does not matter to the case under discussion, which is modularizing the kernel to reduce the number

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

2012-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/9/12 10:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:02:12PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/9/12 1:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: does anyone know of problems with freebsd and this system? the kernel We tried