Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Nick Holland wrote: the "Use entire disk" question changes no more than 512 bytes on your disk. That's the good news. The significance of that 512 bytes is the problem. (and while 512 bytes doesn't sound that bad, that's 2^(512*8) combinations...so we still gotta do somewhat better than random

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Nick Holland wrote: Daniel Ouellet wrote: ... He put the CD 4.5 in his laptop and booted from it. Then started the install but at the question "do you want to use all the disk space for OpenBSD" he did answer Yes. Right after that even he realize it was wrong and didn't proceed to anything els

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

On Fri, 01 May 2009 21:55:59 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >Hi, > >Now sure if anyone could give me a hint or pointer, but I very much >would appreciated ANY help if there is actually something possible to do. > >My Son did a mistake on his laptop tonight in trying to upgrade his >OpenBSD partiti

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Daniel Ouellet wrote: ... > He put the CD 4.5 in his laptop and booted from it. Then started the > install but at the question "do you want to use all the disk space for > OpenBSD" he did answer Yes. Right after that even he realize it was > wrong and didn't proceed to anything else, just did CT

Re: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Tony Abernethy wrote: > >> disklabel, of fdisk > >> to look only, looks like there is only one partition now. > > Dunno if that is looking at MBR in memory or MBR on disk > > If MBR on disk is still the same, should be OK after boot. > > That's not from memory for sure. >

Re: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Tony Abernethy wrote: disklabel, of fdisk to look only, looks like there is only one partition now. Dunno if that is looking at MBR in memory or MBR on disk If MBR on disk is still the same, should be OK after boot. That's not from memory for sure. Power off and on show the same thing. If M

Re: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Daniel Ouellet wrote: > > Hi, > > Now sure if anyone could give me a hint or pointer, but I very much > would appreciated ANY help if there is actually something > possible to do. > > My Son did a mistake on his laptop tonight in trying to upgrade his > OpenBSD partition to 4.5 and he is pret

Re: [PF] Strange Blocks

have you looked at the output from `pfctl -sr'? might give you a clue. --patrick On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:09 AM, dug wrote: > Hello, > > I have some filter problems with a new installed firewall with Openbsd 4.4 > using PF. > > This Firewall is connect to Internet and to a private network. > On

OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

Hi, Now sure if anyone could give me a hint or pointer, but I very much would appreciated ANY help if there is actually something possible to do. My Son did a mistake on his laptop tonight in trying to upgrade his OpenBSD partition to 4.5 and he is pretty devastated at the outcome. He put t

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:13:38PM -0400, bofh wrote: > On 5/1/09, Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: > >> Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an > >> openBSD > >> server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventual

Wireless ral(4) problem

Hy guys, I'm having a problem with a ral(4) based card. I'm using the RT2561S chipset. It's configured ok in hostap mode with wpa-psk and wpa1 as wpaproto, i can connect with my clients correctly, but it sometimes is freezing up. I captured some packets on both ends and there are lots of

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

I'd s/external usb enclosure/ide+sata->usb adapter/ Much more flexible, and cheaper, iirc. On 5/1/09, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: >> Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an >> openBSD >> server. It was an old, canta

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: > Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an openBSD > server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventually something > happened to the motherboard, and it died. The drives, with all of their > data, are st

Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an openBSD server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventually something happened to the motherboard, and it died. The drives, with all of their data, are still fine. In fact, I'd like to recover the data. In my current s

Re: pfr_update_stats: assertion failed

did you ever get any enlightenment on this? if so i could use some enlightenment as well. maybe the developers would be so kind and can chime in on this one as well? thanks. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Insan Praja SW wrote: > Dear misc@, > After repeatedly got the "pfr_update_stats: assertion

Re: Memory and Swap Info

dmesg and then man pages about founded devices atactl(8) scanpci from X binaries scsi(8) top,systat,sysctl 2009/4/30 socknoggle : > Sorry,all. B I didn't state what I needed very well. B What I'm really looking > for is hardware data related to memory, swap, cpu, pci and scsi devices. > This wou

[PF] Strange Blocks

Hello, I have some filter problems with a new installed firewall with Openbsd 4.4 using PF. This Firewall is connect to Internet and to a private network. On this private network there is another Freebsd router which is a connected to a second private network. On it, there is a mail serve

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me.]

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Re: OpenBSD 4.5 released, May 1, 2009

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:07:57 -0600 Theo de Raadt wrote: > > May 1, 2009. > > We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.5. Congratulations and thank you to all the developers and contributors! -- J.C. R

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me.]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:21:50 -0600 Bob Beck wrote: > > Users are cautioned about rogue ftp sites claiming to have > OpenBSD. > The best place to get OpenBSD is from an official CD set, > produced in a secured location > > It has come to our attention that some ftp sites > (

Re: 4.5 bsd.rd stalls during boot at "rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks"

Someone contacted me off-list and suggested I disable acpi in the bsd.rd kernel before booting it. It worked. boot> boot bsd.rd -c UKC> disable acpi EKC> quit Thanks, -Martin

4.5 bsd.rd stalls during boot at "rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks"

Hi Misc, I am trying to re-install an OpenBSD 4.0-current machine from scratch by using the bsd.rd from a very recent 4.5 snapshot. However, during booting the system "stalls" at the line: rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks and stays there forever. I have tried booting from my OpenBSD 4.5 release CD but it

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Re: Improving kernel crypto performance

On 2009-05-01, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Stuart Henderson > wrote: >> I think you may need to update binutils before you can try these >> fastest implementations.. > > Why do you think that? I just successfully compiled Peter Schwabe's > record setting AES implem

Re: Improving kernel crypto performance

> For instance, you have a hifn and a via cpu. Which does [should] crypto use? It should use the via, since it is way way way faster :)