Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-18 Thread Baldur Gislason
I vaguely remember being able to yank out USB drives in 5.x and just make usbd execute a forced umount without any problems. FAT32 drives mind you. On 6.2 I haven't even been able to unplug a USB drive even if I unmount it first, always results in a kernel panic. Baldur On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-18 Thread Baldur Gislason
This really struck me as a problem when I had a short power outage and my external USB hard drive wasn't plugged into the UPS. Laptop didn't reboot from the power outage but it rebooted anyway because it lost a hard drive (which was mounted but I wasn't doing any work on) Baldur On Wed, Jul

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-03 Thread Baldur Gislason
Your only option here as far as I know is to partition the drive to be the new /usr partition. To acheive this you would preferrably put the system into single user mode, create a partition on the new drive and mount it under /mnt for example. Then copy all the data between. I prefer to use dump

Weird fdisk behavior

2005-06-17 Thread Baldur Gislason
I am trying to add another partition to my root drive, it has a few gigabytes of unpartitioned space. Whenever I try to run fdisk -u it says cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory ad0 does exist, why does fdisk say otherwise? fdisk can display the partition table but it can't

Re: how can I use all the plugins in mozilla

2005-06-09 Thread Baldur Gislason
You probably have to install a different linux_base. linux_base_rh9 for example. Baldur On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:27:03PM +0300, Maher Mohamed wrote: i instaled the mozilla and the linuxpluginwrapper port but i still get this error messages LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared

Spontanious reboots

2002-02-14 Thread Baldur Gislason
This box has been spontaniously rebooting for a while, we've replaced most of the hardware and upgraded the system to 4.5-STABLE with no luck. Machine's role is firewall/transparent proxy Here's an examination of a panic it generated: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual

Re: Force keyboard detection flag?

2002-01-17 Thread Baldur Gislason
Have you never compiled your own kernel? Here's a paste from LINT: # `flags' for atkbd: # 0x01Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard # 0x02Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads # 0x04Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for