Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
On Monday 30 June 2003 11:36 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:10, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. I > > > was using booteasy as t

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. I > was using booteasy as the boot loader and I had no problem booting into > either Windows or FreeBSD. However, I found myself having to reinstall > FreeBSD so I decided t

Re: libthr and 1:1 threading.

2003-04-02 Thread Andrew Boothman
Terry Lambert wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:54:45PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: I have commited libthr. To try this out you'll need to do the following I know very very little about threads, but I'm interested as to what the purpose is of this library. Is ther

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Boothman
George Hartzell wrote: > On boot I get "Loading GRUB... Please Wait..." but after that I get "GRUB > Error 17" which according to the manual means that GRUB doesn't know how to > load the selected partition. Even though when I boot from the floppy it > starts no problem and I can type commands to

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Boothman
My experience with the FBSD boot manager is virtually zero, so I can't address it's workings, but I use GRUB as a booter just because it gets me out of so many jams like yours -- if something isn't where you thought it was you can point GRUB at your disks and let it do the looking for you. The se

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Boothman
George Hartzell wrote: Andrew Boothman writes: > [...] > I didn't really change much about my system when I installed FreeBSD. > > Windows is installed on the whole of the first HDD, and FreeBSD on the whole of > the second. Prior to installing 5.0, the second disc had an

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew Boothman
-Matt > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:58, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > Quoting Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on > > > > your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebs

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew Boothman
Quoting Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on > your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd > install. > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: > &

"panic: ffs_blkfree" in recent JPSNAP

2002-12-21 Thread Andrew Boothman
'ello all! My 5.0-CURRENT-20021215-JPSNAP system is reliably panic-ing and dropping into the debugger a few minutes after booting. I was in the process of trying to boot 5.0-RC2's installation floppies, and the boot failed due to a faulty floppy. So I told the loader to boot from my root parti

Reboot failure and dmesg corruption

2002-12-16 Thread Andrew Boothman
Hi everyone! I recently installed 5.0-CURRENT-20021215-JPSNAP from current.freebsd.org and two small problems have come to light. Firstly my box (a P2-350 Compaq Deskpro) refuses to reboot. When I issue a 'shutdown -r now' the system gets as far as displaying the system uptime and then seems t

Re: The great perl rewrite - progress report

2002-06-11 Thread Andrew Boothman
Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:31:12PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > >>/usr/sbin/sysinstall * - fix - * > > > What part of this uses perl?? Perhaps it was just a general comment ;-) Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Strange dmesg corruption under 5-DP1

2002-04-08 Thread Andrew Boothman
Hi -current folks! This is my first time running a -current of any kind, so please be gentle :-) I just installed 5.0 DP1 on a spare machine, and after changing my mind several times over what I wanted in /etc/rc.conf and several reboots, I set about building a custom kernel. While it was bu

Re: Logitech iFeel Optical USB Mouse cannot be attached.

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ian Logan wrote: > Hello all, > I've got an iFeel at home, plugged directly into the machine. Gives the > exact same error. At one point last summer I started trying to look into > it, and from what I saw in the code and what I remember it looked like > some sort of timeout was happening while try

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-12 Thread Andrew Boothman
s > of my mind. :)] Swearing adds absolutely nothing to your argument, you've devalued your own opinion by giving the impression you're incapable of expressing yourself without resorting to swearing. I personally got sick of it a short way down and gave up reading. -- Andrew Boothm