Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Greg left out the quotes from my example. :) > ...regardless of the "vinum_slices" setting. It is not a nice thing > considering the size of the vinum kld (a6000 bytes). > > "if [ -n $vinum_slices ]" doesn't seem to work. > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia

Re: how to snapshoot :)

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Can somebody throw me a pointer or lifeline so that I can build my own > snapshots? This would greatly simply my task of keeping machines up to date Read /usr/src/release/Makefile and understand it thoroughly. That's all you have to do. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebs

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 15:19:34 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > grog> I'll think out another way and test more thoroughly. How does this > grog> look? > > g...@itga.com.au already pointed out that "vinum read" command in such > an early stage of /etc/rc causes much much warnings about /

dmesg: kernel message buffer has different magic number

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
I've just upgraded to an all-ELF system. The results are less than marvellous. For some reason, one of my IDE disks no longer runs in DMA mode (I'll put in a PR about that in a minute), and I've just had a panic. The trouble is, I can't analyse it. It happened while I was in X, so I didn't see

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 17 January 1999 at 22:17:21 -0800, Jake wrote: >> Oops. This was a thoroughly successful commit, wasn't it? At least >> it didn't break `make world'. > > :) > >> >> I'll think out another way and test more thoroughly. How does this >> look? >> >> if [ -f /etc/vinumslices ]; then >>

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 15:15:09 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > matusita> It works fine, however, sorry I have only ONE volume so how > matusita> it goes if two or more volumes are defined (note that 'vinum > matusita> read' takes only one argument). > > And, this code causes *duplicate*

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread まつしたまこと
matusita> It works fine, however, sorry I have only ONE volume so how matusita> it goes if two or more volumes are defined (note that 'vinum matusita> read' takes only one argument). And, this code causes *duplicate* vinum information, if we do shutdown to single-user mode and then try to come ba

Re: make release fails to build floppies.... (no space left)

1999-01-17 Thread W Gerald Hicks
From: Andreas Klemm Subject: make release fails to build floppies (no space left) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 06:38:27 +0100 > mv /R/stage/kernels/BOOTMFS /R/stage/image.boot/kernel > Getting symbols from /R/stage/image.boot/kernel for mfsroot > Writing MFS image into kernel for boot floppy > /R/s

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-01-17 Thread Donn Miller
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > I recently tried using dd to transfer a binary image to floppy. > > It was the Linux root disk image, color.gz. Basically, dd works > > ok with non-gzipped files, but with files in gzip format, it > > chokes: > > > > root

Re: correction for find(1)'s man page

1999-01-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Jon Hamilton wrote: > > In message <199901180357.taa22...@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra wrote: > } In article <36a0fc11.8b22d...@cybercable.fr>, > } Thierry Herbelot wrote: > } > Hello > } > > } > I was reading the man page for find(1), looking for the precise option > } > to follow symbolic

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > I recently tried using dd to transfer a binary image to floppy. > It was the Linux root disk image, color.gz. Basically, dd works > ok with non-gzipped files, but with files in gzip format, it > chokes: > > root@lc186 floppies# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/r

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Jake
> Oops. This was a thoroughly successful commit, wasn't it? At least > it didn't break `make world'. :) > > I'll think out another way and test more thoroughly. How does this > look? > > if [ -f /etc/vinumslices ]; then > read /etc/vinumslices > if [ -r /modules/vinum.ko ]; then

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
grog> I'll think out another way and test more thoroughly. How does this grog> look? g...@itga.com.au already pointed out that "vinum read" command in such an early stage of /etc/rc causes much much warnings about /dev/ is read-only filesystem. And, a typo around reading from /etc/vinumslices (I

dd and gzip'd files

1999-01-17 Thread Donn Miller
I recently tried using dd to transfer a binary image to floppy. It was the Linux root disk image, color.gz. Basically, dd works ok with non-gzipped files, but with files in gzip format, it chokes: root@lc186 floppies# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/rfd0 dd: /dev/rfd0: Invalid argument 2453+1 records in

make release fails to build floppies.... (no space left)

1999-01-17 Thread Andreas Klemm
mv /R/stage/kernels/BOOTMFS /R/stage/image.boot/kernel Getting symbols from /R/stage/image.boot/kernel for mfsroot Writing MFS image into kernel for boot floppy /R/stage/image.boot/kernel: 54.7% -- replaced with /R/stage/image.boot/kern el.gz disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supporte

NFS: likely problem is vfs_bio.c rev 1.188

1999-01-17 Thread Chris Timmons
John Polstra did some leg work and found a few candidate commits which he suggested backing out one by one to see if they affected the current situation with NFS. On the server I downgraded vfs_bio.c to rev 1.187 & rebooted; no luck. I then installed the same kernel (with the downgraded vfs_bio.

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 13:51:57 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > grog> Because it doesn't work like that. The config is stored in the > grog> disk labels, not in a static (and not necessarily correct) > grog> config file. The config file is only for the first-time create. > > O.K. I und

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread まつしたまこと
grog> Because it doesn't work like that. The config is stored in the grog> disk labels, not in a static (and not necessarily correct) grog> config file. The config file is only for the first-time create. O.K. I understand (not 'vinum create' but 'vinum read'). Would you please ('cause I don't k

Re: correction for find(1)'s man page

1999-01-17 Thread Jon Hamilton
In message <199901180357.taa22...@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra wrote: } In article <36a0fc11.8b22d...@cybercable.fr>, } Thierry Herbelot wrote: } > Hello } > } > I was reading the man page for find(1), looking for the precise option } > to follow symbolic links. } > } > This option is -fo

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 13:03:53 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > Sorry donno who set "$vinum_slide" variable, however, > > grog> Ugh. It wants to be > grog> if [ -n "$vinum_slices" ] > > why not do as the CCD do? Anybody have the answer? > > if [ -f /etc/vinum.conf ]; >

Re: how to snapshoot :)

1999-01-17 Thread W Gerald Hicks
Hi Chris, You've got ports/net/cvsup-mirror installed and functional right? That is the best way I know to keep up a local repository, which is also a prerequisite for spinning a release. The other necessity is to have gobs of disk space. It's recommended to have no less than 1GB free disk spac

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread まつしたまこと
Sorry donno who set "$vinum_slide" variable, however, grog> Ugh. It wants to be grog> if [ -n "$vinum_slices" ] why not do as the CCD do? Anybody have the answer? if [ -f /etc/vinum.conf ]; vinum create /etc/vinum.conf >/dev/null 2>&1 fi Smart and simple enou

Re: correction for find(1)'s man page

1999-01-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <36a0fc11.8b22d...@cybercable.fr>, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello > > I was reading the man page for find(1), looking for the precise option > to follow symbolic links. > > This option is -follow, of course, but it is not described in the man > page Huh? The correct options are th

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: Karl, Let's see your (dmesg) probe messages ... :) they may shed some light on what's happening. I don't claim to be an expert on wd.c but from what I can tell it seems that controller and drive capabilities are probed separately, its conceivable you've

Re: New syscons + XFree 3.3.3.1 = problem?

1999-01-17 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>I'm using -current as of 1998-01-14 with the new syscons (with >separated keyboard driver) and XFree86 3.3.3.1 (XF86_SVGA on a >Matrox G200). The keyboard and mouse are plain PS/2 models, >they work fine under syscons (i.e. not using XFree). [...] >XFree used to allocate the next free virtual ter

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-01-17 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, SANETO Takanori wrote: > After some investigation, I found that following reasons (both cpp > related) caused the failure of build/installing XFree86: > > 1. /usr/libexec/cpp now has no predefined symbols like __FreeBSD__, >which makes imake unable to detect OS type auto

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 2:15:22 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > ...regardless of the "vinum_slices" setting. It is not a nice thing > considering the size of the vinum kld (a6000 bytes). > > "if [ -n $vinum_slices ]" doesn't seem to work. Ugh. It wants to be if [ -n "$vinum_slices" ] F

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Gregory Bond
noticed this when it tried to create lotsa devices in a read-only /dev at boot time. Patch: hellcat## diff -u rc.orig rc --- rc.orig Mon Jan 18 14:20:49 1999 +++ rc Mon Jan 18 14:20:59 1999 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ccdconfig -C fi -if [ -n $vinum_slices ]; then +if [ -n "$vinum_slices" ]

Re: CTM <> CVSUP differences

1999-01-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message Chuck Robey writes: : In terms of convenience, cvsup is supreme, but in terms of stability, : Poul's baby here is the champ, so you have to really consider other : places of corruption first. I've had problems when I get > 30 parts at one time on the fast list... Warner To Unsubscri

vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Ollivier Robert
...regardless of the "vinum_slices" setting. It is not a nice thing considering the size of the vinum kld (a6000 bytes). "if [ -n $vinum_slices ]" doesn't seem to work. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #67: Tue

Re: make world fails

1999-01-17 Thread David O'Brien
> sorry i'm don't put error message > i'm build and install -CURRENT kernel , and trying make world Do you have any local hacks in /usr/src/contrib/gcc/ ?? It seems you may have corrupted sources. Can you remove /usr/src/contrib/gcc and ``cvs up'' or ``cvsup'' again? To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo

1999-01-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 12:28:26PM +1030, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote: > Any chance of getting that committed? :) On my list of things to look at for the weekend. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: Problem booting from aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI

1999-01-17 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Christopher Knight wrote: > At 08:11 PM 1/17/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > >Please try to remove apm0 , if you have ... here it seems to solve the > >problem (after 15 reboot no problem...) > > I didn't have it compiled in. :( > > # > # Laptop support (see LINT

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Bruce Evans
>> New models of IBM IDE drives are fast enough to consume a significant >> fraction (perhaps > 100%) of PIO mode 4 bandwidth (16.6 MB/s). Don't >> use them without DMA. Don't use them without UltraDMA (33.3 MB/s) if >> you want full performance. > >I presume the last "don't" should have been a '

Re: Looking for testers...

1999-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Andrew Gallatin had to walk into mine and say: > Bill Paul writes: > > For those who may not know, I've been tinkering with a new 'tulip clone' > > driver for various PCI ethernet cards. I'm attempting to combine support > > for severa

Re: Today's Make World

1999-01-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Jan-99 Mark Murray wrote: > > Every -current release I try and build falls over with this one. > > Tried making a release lately? :) > Aaaah! _Releases_ are broken? For how long? Hmm.. I did make release on the 12th (or so :) and it generates broken boot disks/cdroms :( (ie it doesn't put

Re: [Fwd: splash screen & xdm]

1999-01-17 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> >It seems that if the splash screen image is not cleared (ie: press any >> >key) before xdm starts up then once logged in the user is unable to >> >switch to a vitual terminal (ie: ctrl-alt-f1 etc), and it just beeps >> >when those keys are pressed. >> >Solution? Putting the command kldunload s

Re: Looking for testers...

1999-01-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Bill Paul writes: > For those who may not know, I've been tinkering with a new 'tulip clone' > driver for various PCI ethernet cards. I'm attempting to combine support > for several tulip like chipsets into a single driver in an attempt to > reduce code bloat. I've gotten things to where I th

RE: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo

1999-01-17 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 19-Nov-99 Luoqi Chen wrote: > configured. Under BSD4.4, there's no need to add such a route, it will be > automatically generated by the kernel. So the simplest solution to this > problem is to delete all `route add xxx 127.0.0.1' statements from the > script. Any chance of getting that c

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > New models of IBM IDE drives are fast enough to consume a significant > fraction (perhaps > 100%) of PIO mode 4 bandwidth (16.6 MB/s). Don't > use them without DMA. Don't use them without UltraDMA (33.3 MB/s) if > you want full performance. I presume th

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Re: how to snapshoot :)

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 17 January 1999 at 19:31:05 -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Hey gang: > > Can somebody throw me a pointer or lifeline so that I can build my own > snapshots? This would greatly simply my task of keeping machines up to date > over here where it is impractical to ride current all the ti

how to snapshoot :)

1999-01-17 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Hey gang: Can somebody throw me a pointer or lifeline so that I can build my own snapshots? This would greatly simply my task of keeping machines up to date over here where it is impractical to ride current all the time. I'd like to get to the point where I can have one server create a snapsho

0112-SNAP system hangs w/ incessant disk activity - softupdates related?

1999-01-17 Thread Matt Behrens
I've been running 3.0.0-19990112-SNAP for about half the weekend now and have run into the same problem twice while having several compile windows open. Both happened after I turned on softupdates on both my partitions (I have a / partition + swap on my first IDE drive, and a /usr partition on my

ATM LANE support

1999-01-17 Thread Chris Steva
I was pleasantly surprised to find that FreeBSD 3.0 supported my FORE PCA-200e ATM card, but I wasn't able to get it up and running becuase there is no support for ethernet LANE (LAN emulation). Instead I found HARP, which appears to be some kind of substitue to LANE for running IP over ATM. Will

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Bruce Evans
>> > The machine is a dual P90 (running SMP) - I get the problems even with a >> > single CPU kernel... It's running Neptune chipset (quite old) - and only >> > has 1 IDE channel. >> >> I would say that this has something to do with the DMA support, but since >> Neptune's IDE controller isn't DMA

Re: cpu name

1999-01-17 Thread Byung Yang
as I see the source code, it is not doing what it is supposed to do.. any suggestions? (it's not a big deal but still it's a bug) I did not modify any of the source codes. Byung On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [19991119 04:02], Byung Yang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >

Re: Problem booting from aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI

1999-01-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
>I didn't have it compiled in. :( > ># ># Laptop support (see LINT for more options) ># >#device apm0at isa? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power >Management > > >Bust be something else, at least in my case. :-( Boh, I really don't understand... for me apm0, for another person was u

Re: Today's Make World

1999-01-17 Thread Bill Fenner
The one that failed: cc -c -nostdinc -O -pipe -DVERSION=\"1.03\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.03\" -DPIC - fpic -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl -DPERL_CORE -DLIBC="" DynaLoader.c The one that succeeded: cc -c-DVERSION=\"1.03\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.03\" -DPIC -fpic -I/usr/obj/us r/src/gn

ps ax: kernel command line caching bug with "-"?

1999-01-17 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
With recent -current I got _su (tcsh) \___ in "ps ax" instead of -su (tcsh) as before. >From su.c: /* csh strips the first character... */ *np = asthem ? "-su" : iscsh == YES ? "_su" : "su"; It seems that it NOT strip the first character now :-( -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.r

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Robert Nordier
Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > >The old bootblocks have a build setting BOOT_HD_BIAS to work > >around this problem. The new bootblocks rely on /boot.config. > >You can have > > > >

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > You can always have verbosity as a selective option. We're talking > about what to do for the great majority of users who aren't in your > shoes at all and don't want to be. True, although the messages (OK, admitadly not the ones we're talking about at the moment) a

Mount before SCSI comes up ? (was Re: Root mount failed:22 ???)

1999-01-17 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:52:13PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The diagnostic is relatively harmless, but it suggests that /etc/fstab > > > is wrong. > > > > Here is fstab line, please point what is wrong? > > /dev/da0s4a / ufs rw,userquota 1 1 > > I have no idea;

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > > > You need 'set num_ide_disks=2' > > > > > > > > The variable's somewhat misnamed, and I'm still groping for an > > > > algorithm that'll get it more or less right without screwing the pooch > > > > should we ever improve the root mount detection in the kernel. > > > > > > Set that where?

Re: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-01-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
"Andrey A. Chernov" writes: >On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 12:58:58PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> > > /kernel: Root mount failed: 22 >> > > /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:da0s4a >> > >> > You did not recently add a disk drive to the SCSI chain by any chance? >> > Especially not one that made the orde

Re: Running old program on 3.0-RELEASE

1999-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Igor Shulgin wrote: > Is it mistake in file rc.conf (I did not modify it before) or my system is > incorrectly configuring? If you're updating your system to 3.0 from 2.1, you will have MANY MANY outdated files in /etc. The system is not likely to work properly unless you upd

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Robert Nordier
Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > Incidentally, do these bootblocks contain the BTX patch I sent you, > > or did you find some other way around that problem? > > This are the boot loaders from last night, just af

threads, exceptions, and current

1999-01-17 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I'm trying to track down a problem with threads, C++ exceptions and ACE on -current. Is the appended little program supposed to work? If not, why not? It SIGABRTs immediately after the last throw with egcs-2.95.2, and also with a month old or so egcs-2.91.66, stock cc. Also with LinuxThrea

RE: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch.

1999-01-17 Thread Andrew Sparrow
> I disagree. From an user perspective I think it will be confusing to > general users to report PII when they think they've got a Celeron. From > a support perspective it might be useful to know what CPU is actually > installed rather than just the class of CPU. FWIW, that would be my preference

Kernel build breakage

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
sh ../../conf/newvers.sh ZIPPY cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf -mpreferred-stack

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Also, I suspect having acd in the kernel and wcd in MAKEDEV may > > lead to confusion for some people. > > I was under the impression that Soren was going to rename acd to wcd > before the branch. Oops, forgot about that one... In fact I was going to add B

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:57:20PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:36:12PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > There are two issues here: > > > > > > > > > > o The bootblocks get the SCSI unit number wrong in cases where > > > > >IDE drives are also attached. >

Re: Suspend on Current

1999-01-17 Thread Jos� M� Alcaide
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Is it just me, or is there anyone else experiencing system freezes > on current after a zzz? > "Me too"® What I see is that, sometimes, after a "zzz" the system goes to sleep (at least, the monitor turns off), but there is no way to wake it up again. The only reason

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> ... and add a magic key combination to turn on the verbose flag. gdb -kW :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -current] On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:27:15 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:32:20 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:38:07 -0500, Jason wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread jack
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Chris Tubutis wrote: > > Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to > > diagnose > > various hardware & software problems on NT & Win'95 machines (to almost no > > avail), I'd appreciate as much verbosity being left _in_ the kernel & > > FreeBSD > >

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to diagnose > various hardware & software problems on NT & Win'95 machines (to almost no > avail), I'd appreciate as much verbosity being left _in_ the kernel & FreeBSD You can always have verbosity as a selective option. We're t

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
From: Jordan K. Hubbard >I don't like this error much either (especially since it generates >tech support questions on USENET and other places from users going >"Aieee! What does this mean?!") me too Question is what to do about the messages. I can think of a few options: 1. move them to verbo

Re: kernel breakage on SMP

1999-01-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes :-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi :-nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf :vers.c :linking kernel :exception.o: In func

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:36:12PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > There are two issues here: > > > > > > > > o The bootblocks get the SCSI unit number wrong in cases where > > > >IDE drives are also attached. > > > > > > > >This is to be expected. There is just insuffici

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread jack
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". > > I don't like this error much either (especially since it generates > tech support questions on USENET and other places from users going > "Aieee! What does this mean?!") but I was overrul

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:36:12PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > There are two issues here: > > > > > > o The bootblocks get the SCSI unit number wrong in cases where > > >IDE drives are also attached. > > > > > >This is to be expected. There is just insufficient space > >

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 12:34:27 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> ===> libnetgraph >> cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -g -Wall -O2 -Werror -I/usr/src.freefall/sys >-I/usr/obj/usr/SRC/4.0-CURRENT/src/tmp/usr/include -c >/usr/SRC/4.0-CURRENT/src/lib/libnetgr

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > > Not sure if I am just to stupid or if this is a bug. My system has > > 2 IDE drives and then several SCSI drives. FreeBSD is on the first > > scsi drive, so da0. Root is da0s1a. Bios sees the drive as the

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > There are two issues here: > > > > o The bootblocks get the SCSI unit number wrong in cases where > >IDE drives are also attached. > > > >This is to be expected. There is just insufficient space > >available to the bootblocks for "smarter" logic. > > > >

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Chris Tubutis
Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to diagnose > various hardware & software problems on NT & Win'95 machines (to almost no > avail), I'd appreciate as much verbosity being left _in_ the kernel & FreeBSD > as possible... I'm fed up with seeing

Re: possible problem with new boot loader ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > > Not sure if I am just to stupid or if this is a bug. My system has > > 2 IDE drives and then several SCSI drives. FreeBSD is on the first > > scsi drive, so da0. Root is da0s1a. Bios sees the drive as the

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:29:19PM +, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > Lee Cremeans wrote: > > > > The machine is a dual P90 (running SMP) - I get the problems even with a > > > single CPU kernel... It's running Neptune chipset (quite old) - and only > > > has 1 IDE channel. > > > > I would say th

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
Lee Cremeans wrote: > > The machine is a dual P90 (running SMP) - I get the problems even with a > > single CPU kernel... It's running Neptune chipset (quite old) - and only > > has 1 IDE channel. > > I would say that this has something to do with the DMA support, but since > Neptune's IDE cont

Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..

1999-01-17 Thread John Birrell
Peter Wemm wrote: > However, the thought has occurred on many occasions that it might be an > idea to make a stand on this and remove the LKM build support. It will > clean up a few interfaces. If this doesn't happen for 3.1, it's definately > on my agenda for after the branch. Converting the co

sscape_mss0 borked?

1999-01-17 Thread geniusj
This has been a problem that has been around ever since I began using the -CURRENT tree.. actually, shortly after on a cvsup.. Anyhoo, I have had the problem throughout multiple installworlds/kernel builds, etc.. The problem is mainly that sscape_mss on my Ensoniq Soundscape (original) skips whe

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Greg Lehey: > Stop in /usr/SRC/4.0-CURRENT/src/lib/libnetgraph. Re-sup. I fixed this already and added a few missing modules while I was here. 55mn for buildworld on my PIII/500 makes testing easy :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". I don't like this error much either (especially since it generates tech support questions on USENET and other places from users going "Aieee! What does this mean?!") but I was overruled on the issue by arguments that it was still providing

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:51:42PM +, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that's meant as a 'backup disk spool' - it has a 2Gb SCSI > drive to boot from, and then 2 x 16Gb IDE drives (IBM-DTTA-351680's). > > The system works fine so long as I stick to using the SCSI drives... If I u

Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <36a24f91.478b5...@tdx.co.uk>, Karl Pielorz writes: >jack wrote: > >> Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". >> >> Perhaps `|| 1' could be changed to `|| crs->openings < some >> critical number' in cam_xpt.c. As it is now a boy and a wolf >> come to mind. > >Coming from

Looking for testers...

1999-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
For those who may not know, I've been tinkering with a new 'tulip clone' driver for various PCI ethernet cards. I'm attempting to combine support for several tulip like chipsets into a single driver in an attempt to reduce code bloat. I've gotten things to where I think they work okay, but I'm loo

RE: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo

1999-01-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
> There is no need to fix kernel if the same result could be achieved by simple > rc.network file modification. Yes, solution proposed in conf/14913 is > not complete and only works in network_interfaces="auto" case, but the > modification to make it work in 100% cases is pretty trivial. > I fina

Re: Running old program on 3.0-RELEASE

1999-01-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I recently installed 3.0-RELEASE on existing 2.1.0-RELEASE. > After that one program does not run any more. You probably did not update the contents of /etc, as one must by hand. This would not create the a.out search paths properly and leads to this exact error. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send

Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
jack wrote: > Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". > > Perhaps `|| 1' could be changed to `|| crs->openings < some > critical number' in cam_xpt.c. As it is now a boy and a wolf > come to mind. Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to diagnose variou

Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I have a system that's meant as a 'backup disk spool' - it has a 2Gb SCSI drive to boot from, and then 2 x 16Gb IDE drives (IBM-DTTA-351680's). The system works fine so long as I stick to using the SCSI drives... If I use the IDE's (e.g. backup another machine to them, tar / untar 'usr/src' t

Re: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-01-17 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 12:58:58PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > /kernel: Root mount failed: 22 > > > /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:da0s4a > > > > You did not recently add a disk drive to the SCSI chain by any chance? > > Especially not one that made the order of the da devices change? No.

Re: FreeBSD version of DRM?

1999-01-17 Thread Marc van Woerkom
> I have a Voodoo 3 at work and I'm interested in porting the DRM (I can > even justify doing it in work time). It probably won't be for a week or > two since I have other stuff happening right now. Very good. I am aiming for DRI working with nvidia from December on, this will make it a lot easie

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Wemm
sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > > j...@zippy-> dmesg|grep Freeing > > > Freeing (NOT implemented) redirected ISA irq 11. > > > Freeing (NOT implemented) redirected ISA irq 10. > > > > Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". > > Agreed. They are confusing to those who don't know what i

/boot/loader and booting off of second IDE

1999-01-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
OK. I have tried to figure out how to boot off of my second IDE drive and I am close, but I still haven't got it. I need to boot wd2s1a. Here is what I have done. Booting off of a floppy with the old boot blocks: 1:wd(2,a)/boot/loader I get to the prompt and type: set currdev=dis

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
try add this to ng_async.h I just committed this. It's in archie's tree but not the checked in version. /* Configuration for this node */ struct ng_async_cfg { u_char enabled;/* Turn encoding on/off */ --> u_char acfcomp;/* Address/control field compr

kernel breakage on SMP

1999-01-17 Thread Steve Kargl
cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf vers.c linking kernel exception.o: In function `

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
hmm archie seems to have missed something. I'll look and see wht he's left out he just got called away while committing. On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > ===> libnetgraph > cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -g -Wall -O2 -Werror -I/usr/src.freefall/sys >-I/usr/obj/usr/SRC/4.0-CURRENT/src/tmp/usr/i

Re: Problem booting from aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI

1999-01-17 Thread Christopher Knight
At 08:11 PM 1/17/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >Please try to remove apm0 , if you have ... here it seems to solve the >problem (after 15 reboot no problem...) I didn't have it compiled in. :( # # Laptop support (see LINT for more options) # #device apm0at isa? disable flag

HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Wemm
As of a few minutes ago, I committed some changes that: 1: make the LKM code use the common VFS and syscall registration routines 2: make an 'options LKM' option. 3: build an 'lkm' loadable kld module This means that if you are still using an a.out kernel and are loading LKM's specifically, you e

Re: Problem booting from aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI

1999-01-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 18.10 16/01/99 -0800, you wrote: >At 12:49 AM 1/17/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >> >>Ok, first the conclusion... >> >>I am not able to boot anymore from a 3.0-current system while I can boot >>quite nicely from the 3.0-RELEASE generic kernel. >> >>The system hangs on checking the scs

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