Re: harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed.

2005-10-10 Thread Owe Jørgensen
Mr. Darren wrote: I had a bad ide cable which I have now replaced. on bootup the filesystem produced a lot of errors and I lost my first superblock. I since fsck'd and repaired the superblock at sector 32. At no time does fsck create, fix, or transfer the sector 32 superblock to the front of t

Re: harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed.

2005-10-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Owe Jørgensen wrote: >try >newfs -n >to list the proper superblock backups for the partition. *ahem*... don't you mean -N? mkb. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send a

RE: Delivery reports about your e-mail

2005-10-10 Thread Phil Ackery
Unable to open attached files, and anyway I plead total ignorance of these things. Can you take over my computer and sort it -Original Message- From: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2005 11:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery reports ab

Re: Delivery reports about your e-mail

2005-10-10 Thread David Richards
On 10 Oct 2005, at 11:28, Phil Ackery wrote: Unable to open attached files, and anyway I plead total ignorance of these things. Can you take over my computer and sort it -Original Message- From: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2005 11:16

Re: harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed.

2005-10-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mr. Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a bad ide cable which I have now replaced. on > bootup the filesystem produced a lot of errors and I > lost my first superblock. I since fsck'd and repaired > the superblock at sector 32. At no time does fsck > create, fix, or transfer the secto

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread Martin Gumucio
My congrats to the webdesigners and the Freebsd community, for the great looking new webpage! I find it infomative, easily navigated and it even looks good in lynx. What more can you ask for? Good job! // Martin Gumucio ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org m

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Thu, 06.10.2005 at 20:36:07 +0200, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >monitor are wider than taller, why restrain horizontal space ? > > A fixed width design is very fashionable these days and you see it creeping > up everywhere. > It's what's considered "professional" these days, so I can't reall

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 13:45 schrieb Ulrich Spoerlein: > Fixed width is stupid. Period. I'd appreciate it if this could be > changed to a relative width of the central column OR a fixed width of > the borders. > > Also, the width for the fonts either assumes pixel width or uses fixed > point w

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD 5-STABLE, > if I use the "tmp*" variables in /etc/rc.conf to have an MFS /tmp > created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- as I expected from > the part of the mdmfs man page that reads: > >

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Fixed width is stupid. Period. I'd appreciate it if this could be changed to a relative width of the central column OR a fixed width of the borders. Yeah, not to pick on those working on this project, since I think it generally represents a huge stride in the right dir

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread Hector Lecuanda
After seeng 60-odd messages in this thread in only 4 days, i can only say BIKE SHED ALERT! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING we could all take a minute and read that little jewel buried in the docs, since this is a prime example of the bike-shed synd

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:37 am, David Wolfskill wrote: > I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD > 5-STABLE, if I use the "tmp*" variables in /etc/rc.conf to > have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- > as I expected from the part of the mdmfs man page that rea

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ... > It's hard-coded into rc_subr. Argh! I see it -- now. :-/ > Changing it to a default parameter and overriding it in rc.conf would > probably be easy to get committed. Right. PR forthcoming, within the half-hour. Thank

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Sean Winn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD 5-STABLE, if I use the "tmp*" variables in /etc/rc.conf to have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- as I expected from the part of the mdmfs man p

Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

2005-10-10 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Billy Newsom wrote: Okay, Tim, I just reported the same bug in a previous post. So did Julian C. Dunn. I think this is an issue with some recent code changes in CVS... See these threads: critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4) 9/23/2005 12:07 AM ATA locku

harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed.

2005-10-10 Thread Mr. Darren
Mr. Darren wrote: > I had a bad ide cable which I have now replaced. on > bootup the filesystem produced a lot of errors and I > lost my first superblock. I since fsck'd and repaired > the superblock at sector 32. At no time does fsck > create, fix, or transfer the sector 32 superblock to

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Ben Kelly
On Monday 10 October 2005 10:55 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:37 am, David Wolfskill wrote: > > I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD > > 5-STABLE, if I use the "tmp*" variables in /etc/rc.conf to > > have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:03:50AM -0400, Ben Kelly wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 10:55 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > These paramaters are used by the startup script /etc/rc.d/tmp > > which calls mount_md defined in /etc/rc.subr which specifically > > adds the _M (malloc) option to the md

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Ben Kelly
On Monday 10 October 2005 3:49 pm, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:03:50AM -0400, Ben Kelly wrote: > > On Monday 10 October 2005 10:55 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > > > > > These paramaters are used by the startup script /etc/rc.d/tmp > > > which calls mount_md defined in /e

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-10 Thread jdow
From: "Hector Lecuanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> After seeng 60-odd messages in this thread in only 4 days, i can only say BIKE SHED ALERT! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING we could all take a minute and read that little jewel buried in the docs, since

Re: Good, stable gigabit nic?

2005-10-10 Thread martinko
John Pettitt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 My gigabit nic has gone bad (after months of working just fine it's saying "sk0 watchdog timeout" after a day or so of operation - temp fix is to reboot) - I'm looking for pointers for a low cos but functional gigabit PC