Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Arne Schwabe
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: >FreeBSD loader doesn't load a kernel from ext2, fat16/32, or network so >it's not usable in this case. > > you can load the kernel from network via tftp at least with pxe loader loads the kernel via tftp. Arne ___ freebsd-hacke

Re: Bug in portupgrade

2005-07-15 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:15:31AM +0200, Olivier Certner wrote: > Le Mardi 12 Juillet 2005 19:39, Florent Thoumie a ?crit : > > Le Mardi 12 juillet 2005 ? 12:55 -0400, Kris Kennaway a ?crit : > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Olivier Certner wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >

Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
FreeBSD loader doesn't load a kernel from ext2, fat16/32, or network so it's not usable in this case. On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:44:21PM +, Maslan wrote: > You can chian load your BSD. > root (hd0,0,a) # if hd0,0 is your kernel's UFS > chainloader +1 > boot > or you can load the loader > root

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, Scott Long wrote: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. I don't know whether it's my machine (HP DL145G2) or this new release, but without USB compiled in the kernel,

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:45:04AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote.. > Mike Meyer wrote this message on Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:22 -0400: > > > passwd root > > > > Except you have to know the root password for that to work. > > root is never asked what the old password is... Why isn't this whole t

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Mike Meyer wrote this message on Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:22 -0400: > > passwd root > > Except you have to know the root password for that to work. root is never asked what the old password is... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do,

Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Maslan
You can chian load your BSD. root (hd0,0,a) # if hd0,0 is your kernel's UFS chainloader +1 boot or you can load the loader root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader boot On 7/15/05, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:19:09PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: >

Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:19:09PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > >I'd like to bootstrap a FreeBSD 5.4 install from GRUB or another > >harddrive-based bootloader without using PXEboot. > > > >Problem: GRUB will boot the FreeBSD loader, however I can't get > >the

Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: I'd like to bootstrap a FreeBSD 5.4 install from GRUB or another harddrive-based bootloader without using PXEboot. Problem: GRUB will boot the FreeBSD loader, however I can't get the loader to read a kernel from any of my existing partitions(ext2, reiserfs, fat16). I kno

Re: Per CPU load statistics

2005-07-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 15 July 2005 04:26 am, J. Martin Petersen wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to get per CPU (load) statistics? It seems cp_time is a > sum for all the CPUs, so is there another way to get this information? I > looked through the source, but I'm not quite sure what to look for. > > Cheers, Mar

Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I'd like to bootstrap a FreeBSD 5.4 install from GRUB or another harddrive-based bootloader without using PXEboot. Problem: GRUB will boot the FreeBSD loader, however I can't get the loader to read a kernel from any of my existing partitions(ext2, reiserfs, fat16). I know it can load a kernel fr

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSd4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
While normally not able to pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:00 our dear friend [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered this load of codswallop: > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:55:16 -0400 (EDT) > From: John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re:

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian H. Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Amandeep wrote: > > Hi all, > > First, please do Not cross post, we have a rule about that ! > > ... so I dropped cc freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, > > > Is there a way to reset the root passwd without reinstalling FreeBSD 4.7

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/15/05, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Boot with 1st CD, goto the Fixit Shell (will need 2nd CD). > > You an boot the second CD directly. Fixit Shell does not need the 2nd CD in FreeBSD 5.4 anymore. -- Dmitry "We live less by imagi

rc.d ppp dependency

2005-07-15 Thread stefan
Hi when using ppp together with pf there seems to exist a dependency problem. I start ppp and pf with : ppp_enable="YES" and pf_enable="YES" in rc.conf. At startup when the pf rulefile is loaded, the tun0 (which I use in the pf config) device does not yet exist and therefore the rules can not load

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from Free

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Vasil Dimov
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:44:35AM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:55:16AM -0400, John Von Essen wrote: > > > Boot with 1st CD, goto the Fixit Shell (will need 2nd CD). From there you > > > have to manually m

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:44:35AM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:55:16AM -0400, John Von Essen wrote: > > Boot with 1st CD, goto the Fixit Shell (will need 2nd CD). From there you > > have to manually mount the / filesystem and edit passwd (just clear out > > the passwd, ro

Per CPU load statistics

2005-07-15 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Hi Is it possible to get per CPU (load) statistics? It seems cp_time is a sum for all the CPUs, so is there another way to get this information? I looked through the source, but I'm not quite sure what to look for. Cheers, Martin ___ freebsd-hackers@fre