Re: Installation in a Xen guest (pvgrub)

2020-07-24 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 24.07.2020 17:30, schrieb Theo de Raadt: [...] non-OpenBSD bootloaders will do a shitty job of booting OpenBSD. I'm not going to bother explaining the situation in detail. People who try to go that way have already decided they don't care about the consequences. Ok. Thanks. Are you talking

Re: Installation in a Xen guest (pvgrub)

2020-07-24 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 21.07.2020 15:51, schrieb Pierre-Philipp Braun: [...] GRUB2 should be able to boot an OpenBSD kernel natively *2. Thing is, PVGRUB works for PV, not PVH nor PVHVM. However you might get NetBSD XEN/PV up and running at your XEN ISP *3, by leveraging PVGRUB indeed *3. And in case UFS is not

Re: Installation in a Xen guest (pvgrub)

2020-07-16 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 10.07.2020 23:30, schrieb Demi M. Obenour: [...] For me, OpenBSD boots fine in HVM mode (with an I/O emulator). I have not tried PVH mode and would not expect it to work. PV mode definitely won’t work, and should be avoided anyway for both security and performance reasons. Is HVM mode okay

Installation in a Xen guest (pvgrub)

2020-07-09 Thread Markus Kolb
Hi, is there a possibility to install/boot OpenBSD in a Xen guest which is booted by pvgrub1 or pvgrub2? The pvgrub is configured to use a /boot/grub/grub.cfg of the guest in the 1st partition. In a non-Xen-grub there is a bsd-module which can boot the installer bsd.rd, but this bsd-module i

Re: Xen PV DomU with OpenBSD?

2015-02-26 Thread Markus Kolb
ms. I know the reasons why not to trust EC2, but I'd really like to be able to use OpenBSD on EC2. If you're interested in doing the work, contact me. --Joel On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Markus Kolb wrote: Hi, there isn't any support for Xen PV DomU in OpenBSD,

Re: Xen PV DomU with OpenBSD?

2015-02-22 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-21 22:52, schrieb Raimundo Santos: On 21 February 2015 at 10:31, Markus Kolb wrote: there isn't any support for Xen PV DomU in OpenBSD, isn't it? No, there is not such support. But you can run it in HVM mode without effort. Well, may be some effort in XenServer, wher

Re: spamd whitelist

2015-02-22 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-21 23:51, schrieb F Bax: In this archived message; Peter explains here how to get ip address for various gmail servers - which can then be added to whitelist... http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136449396910976&w=2 When I try this process for yahoo.com; I get Why you'd like to whi

Xen PV DomU with OpenBSD?

2015-02-21 Thread Markus Kolb
Hi, there isn't any support for Xen PV DomU in OpenBSD, isn't it? What happened with Christoph Egger's work he is talking about in https://archive.org/details/bsdtalk069 ? Thanks. Markus

Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall

2015-02-19 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-19 10:51, schrieb Peter Hessler: :choose the CPU with higher Frequency and less cores or for a CPU with :lower frequency but more cores? Higher frequency. Period. Right now, network and PF processing is limited to CPU0. You want that as fast as possible. Additionally, you want a

Re: Installing OpenBSD 5.6 using a USB Flash drive

2015-02-18 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-17 17:27, schrieb A Y: dmesg|grep ^.d0 returns only "sd0" sysctl hw.disknames returns "sd0" and "rd0" my machine is a 10.1 inch netbook Lenovo E10-30 running Intel Celeron N2830 Dual Core 64 bit. Do you think I should have used amd64 installation instead of i386? Will depend most

Re: Installing OpenBSD 5.6 using a USB Flash drive

2015-02-16 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-16 15:36, schrieb A Y: Did anyone install OpenBSD 5.6 from a USB Flash drive? Please help... You have already booted from drive, now you only need to select this drive device during installation. You need help exactly with what?

Re: Legacy Laptop stops working with OpenBSD GENERIC >= 5.5

2015-02-11 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-11 12:25, schrieb Markus Kolb: Hello, what is your policy for legacy hardware? I'd like to reactivate an old laptop for special purpose with OpenBSD. But I've problems to run supported releases on it. The latest working version is OpenBSD 5.4. Since 5.5 you can rea

Legacy Laptop stops working with OpenBSD GENERIC >= 5.5

2015-02-11 Thread Markus Kolb
Hello, what is your policy for legacy hardware? I'd like to reactivate an old laptop for special purpose with OpenBSD. But I've problems to run supported releases on it. The latest working version is OpenBSD 5.4. Since 5.5 you can read in dmesg (dmesg.boot is attached): cbb0 at pci0 dev 4 functio

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-03 Thread Markus Kolb
Theo de Raadt wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:51:58 -0600: > Fine, talk what you want about. > > But something you should think about is this: > > It is a good idea if OpenBSD developers read these mailing lists too, > for ideas as to what to change or fix. But if the lists are just > yammering

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-02 Thread Markus Kolb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:47:49 +1000: > Quoting Markus Kolb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You don't know after 2 mails that it will be only noise. > > The noise starts when the person who brings up the FAQ, decides to > pursue an iss

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-01 Thread Markus Kolb
Otto Moerbeek wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 17:10:44 +0200: > If we feel that certain posts just add noise and nothing else, we say so. You don't know after 2 mails that it will be only noise. And with your flaming you kill a thread before it starts to become interesting. I have already written:

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-01 Thread Markus Kolb
Brad wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:18:54 -0400: > > There are no "compilation limitations" of OBSD. There are. Have a look at the net/ser port for example. And I will show you in core after I've had a deeper look.

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-01 Thread Markus Kolb
Shane J Pearson wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 15:49:55 +1000: > Markus, > > On 01/06/2005, at 1:17 AM, Markus Kolb wrote: > > > >Well, if OBSD would done the compiler flagging right then I wouldn't > >have to do it myself. > > I believe OpenBSD has done it r

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-01 Thread Markus Kolb
Otto Moerbeek wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:10:42 +0200: > > On Tue, 31 May 2005, Markus Kolb wrote: > > > And maybe you should return from anarchy to democracy a little bit. > > If have no idea what political term fits best, but OpenBSD is not a > democracy. We valu

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-05-31 Thread Markus Kolb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, May 31, 2005 at 15:13:50 +0200: > Markus Kolb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The OpenBSD mailing lists are for dicussing OpenBSD issues. It has > been repeatedly stated that fiddling with compiler flags is something > that is not done in Op

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-05-31 Thread Markus Kolb
Peter Hessler wrote on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 14:39:12 -0700: > > Because gcc generates broken code for -march=i486. The above link *is* > an informative answer, just not what you were looking for. Is it a bug in gcc version implemented in OpenBSD or why I've never seen this in any other architectu

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-05-30 Thread Markus Kolb
Joel Dinel wrote on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 14:51:04 -0400: > On 5/30/05, Markus Kolb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > do you have any information why there are problems in OBSD kernel if > > using -march=i486 GCC option for GENERIC kernel compilation?

Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-05-30 Thread Markus Kolb
Hi, do you have any information why there are problems in OBSD kernel if using -march=i486 GCC option for GENERIC kernel compilation? Parts of the kernel are unuseable. Thank you Markus