Re: Bootloader location for encrypted root (softraid)

2024-10-09 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Thomas: > > > - the 2nd stage bootloader in the softraid volume, the man page says > > "in the storage area oft he softraid volume". > > The start of /usr/src/sys/dev/softraidvar.h holds a number of defines > that relate thi

Re: Memory upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread obsdml
> In a second server I have upgraded from 7.5 i386 to 7.6 i386 but server sees > only 4GB of RAM > Is anybody with similar experiences? Any ideas how to fix RAM? run 64bit OpenBSD 32bit address space is limited to a max of 4GB**, and some of that is eaten up by PCI devices, etc. ** PAE can wor

Re: Memory upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread Mike Larkin
On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:07:03AM +0200, Zbigniew Kossowski wrote: > I have 2 HP Proliant miniserver and upgraded RAM from 1x4GB to 2x8GB (by YT > user). > > First server: > BIOS sees 16GB, dmesg sees 16GB spdmem0 and 1 but only 4GB of RAM > > # dmesg |grep mem > real mem = 3622907904 (3455MB) >

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Dan
Sorry for LOLer: I recommend two external screens to make it easy to copy and past from the terminal.. Dan wrote: > For the rest many LOL about: > > > 1920x1080 resolution (my vision cannot cope with > >   anything higher) >

Re: Console hints and question

2024-10-09 Thread Dan
Want to thank, interactive shell script attached (supplied AS-IS) :)) -Dan Carsten Reith wrote: > Something like: > > for i in xml*/email/*; do mv $i `dirname $i`/po...@elletronica.lol; > done > > ? > > Cheers, > > Carsten > > Dan writes: > > > Hello, > > > > About *shelling*, I found

Re: Memory upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread Christian Schulte
On 10/10/24 00:07, Zbigniew Kossowski wrote: > I have 2 HP Proliant miniserver and upgraded RAM from 1x4GB to 2x8GB (by > YT user). > > First server:  > BIOS sees 16GB, dmesg sees 16GB spdmem0 and 1 but only 4GB of RAM > > # dmesg |grep mem > real mem  = 3622907904 (3455MB) > avail mem = 35394232

Memory upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread Zbigniew Kossowski
I have 2 HP Proliant miniserver and upgraded RAM from 1x4GB to 2x8GB (by YT user). First server: BIOS sees 16GB, dmesg sees 16GB spdmem0 and 1 but only 4GB of RAM # dmesg |grep mem real mem = 3622907904 (3455MB) avail mem = 3539423232 (3375MB) spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-12800

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread nisp1953
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 12:24 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) < lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > It's time to buy a laptop for OpenBSD. I > > * X Windows at 1920x1080 resolution (my vision cannot cope with > anything higher) > * 14 inch screen > * *light* *weight* > * Functional Wifi (don't need

Re: Failed re-install with bsd.rd and full disk encryption

2024-10-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/9/24 17:06, Thomas wrote: Hello all, I have attempted to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6 on a VPS with encryption. As /usr was too small (< 1G left), I chose to re-install and re-partition. I downloaded bsd.rd, checked it, etc. and rebooted it. Following the install steps, I was not offered the c

Failed re-install with bsd.rd and full disk encryption

2024-10-09 Thread Thomas
Hello all, I have attempted to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6 on a VPS with encryption. As /usr was too small (< 1G left), I chose to re-install and re-partition. I downloaded bsd.rd, checked it, etc. and rebooted it. Following the install steps, I was not offered the choice to encrypt, only to choose

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Adam Retter
Cool to hear about the X1 Carbon! Conversely, I would avoid the Lenovo X1 Extreme. I have a Gen 4, and I could not get the following working under OpenBSD 7.5: built-in mic, touchscreen, bluetooth, Discrete Graphics (Nvidia), and HDMI output. Of the things that didn't work, I only really cared abou

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:19:27 +0200, "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" wrote: > > * X Windows at 1920x1080 resolution (my vision cannot cope with > anything higher) > * 14 inch screen you always can use higher DPI via Xft.dpi or xrandr --scale ... -- wbr, Kirill

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Dan
Maybe I'm going to repeat myself, sorry for that. You can invetigate about a shop allowing you to try like you want the new toy. Prepare a usb stick with OpenBSD inside if you don't have already one and go. The search about this shop depends also from where you live, in some places there are mor

Re: laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Raymond, David
Lenovo X1 Carbon. It is Intel rather than AMD. I have obsd on several versions, 1, 4, 5, and 9. Only problem is microphone on 9. (I don't use fingerprint reader.) Very reliable. Dave Raymond On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 12:34 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) < lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > It's time to

laptop recommendation

2024-10-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
It's time to buy a laptop for OpenBSD. I'm looking for recommendations from people actually running OpenBSD on their laptop. My requirements are pretty light: * X Windows at 1920x1080 resolution (my vision cannot cope with anything higher) * 14 inch screen * *light* *weight* * Functional Wifi

OpenBSD 7.5 not responding

2024-10-09 Thread F Bax
I've been running OpenBSD 7.5 amd64 in VM under Proxmox 8.2.2 for several months. A couple of times each month; there is no response to keystrokes on console and no response to http and ssh access. When this happens; the system does respond to pings. I move on by forcing a hard reboot. If I am unab

Re: Bootloader location for encrypted root (softraid)

2024-10-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Thomas: > - the 2nd stage bootloader in the softraid volume, the man page says > "in the storage area oft he softraid volume". The start of /usr/src/sys/dev/softraidvar.h holds a number of defines that relate this. It might be worth looking into the installboot(8) source how this is actually use

Bootloader location for encrypted root (softraid)

2024-10-09 Thread Thomas
Dear all, I have tried to look at the doc and through this mailing list to understand where the bootloader is located for a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) install. There are two devices setup, sd0 and sd1 for the encrypted volume. From the man pages, my current understanding is that when the install

Re: Perplexed about tcl-tk safety

2024-10-09 Thread Dan
Sorry, I realized now that in my case there is no security context switch but barely a tcl-tk app can - by the exec - launch %something% more then the "standard" including the tk and the XFCE killer (?) ( surely if you are within root doesn't help ) -Dan dan wrote: > Hello, > > I recently

Perplexed about tcl-tk safety

2024-10-09 Thread dan
Hello, I recently noticed a strange behavior on my system hanging starting from my apps launcher written in tcl-tk, although I have no proof-of- concept or demo to show. Every time the gui of my XFCE hangs it is anticipated by some small changes in the gui of my dev environment launcher. The si

Re: Do Spectre-V4 mitigations protect VM guests?

2024-10-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/8/24 07:50, Anders Andersson wrote: While reading the release notes for 7.6, the first change is "Implemented Spectre-V4 mitigations for arm64". There's now a number of Spectre-type flaws and mitigations, and I realize I don't know enough about them. An idle question that popped into my

Re: Question regarding removal of dhclient

2024-10-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-10-08, Mark wrote: > --f1de180623fe126e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Under OpenBSD 7.5, having unwind enabled, I had in my dhclient.conf the > following line; > > supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1, 185.12.64.1, 185.12.64.2; > > And in my dhcpleased.conf

Re: pkg_add issues since 7.6 upgrade

2024-10-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-10-09, red.s...@posteo.net wrote: > (Thanks Jesse for the help) > > Seems pkg_add with -n option shows errors. > However if I just go though with the actual install pkg_add -aU > things worked just fine. Yes it's a pkg_add bug with -n, though fairly easily worked around. > [Im sure pkg

Re: Question regarding removal of dhclient

2024-10-09 Thread Manuel Giraud
Mark writes: [...] > Few minutes ago I upgraded to 7.6 (many thanks to the OpenBSD team > for great efforts!) and after removal of dhclient, where can I define both > external nameservers from my server provider? I think that now that you're using unwind it is also its job to manage any additio