Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-10 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/10/13 09:20, Allan Jude wrote: On 2013-10-10 03:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/09/13 18:55, Teske, Devin wrote: On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:19 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/09/13 01:13, Allan Jude wrote: On 2013-10-08 16:17, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/07/13 21:59, Allan Jude wrote

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-09 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/09/13 01:13, Allan Jude wrote: On 2013-10-08 16:17, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/07/13 21:59, Allan Jude wrote: Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and MBR, the 4k sector gnop trick, and optional

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/07/13 21:59, Allan Jude wrote: Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and MBR, the 4k sector gnop trick, and optional GELI encryption. We would like to commit this in time for 10.0-BETA1 so it needs

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/08/13 22:25, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org mailto:nwhiteh...@freebsd.orgwrote: 4. What is this gnop stuff for? Can't comment on the rest, but gnop is required to create 4K-aligned vdevs where the minimum block size

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/08/13 22:50, Teske, Devin wrote: On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/07/13 21:59, Allan Jude wrote: Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and MBR, the 4k sector gnop trick

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/08/13 23:21, Kurt Lidl wrote: On 10/8/2013, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 10/07/13 21:59, Allan Jude wrote: Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and MBR, the 4k sector gnop trick, and optional GELI

Re: r255873: ahcich7: Timeout on slot 0 port 0 FLOODING kernel messages

2013-09-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/27/13 09:18, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote on 27.09.2013 17:38: reverting those two commits solved the issue. In my case just rebuilding and restarting of sysutils/hal helped. Rebuilding and restarting hald solved the issue on non-reverted kernel. Thank you,

Re: unbound? -- Conf file?

2013-09-16 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/16/13 03:54, Larry Rosenman wrote: I took the minimalist file from man unbound.conf, and the unbound-checkconf and unbound itself does NOT like it: A related note: it seems like the /etc bits for unbound have not been hooked up. There is no default config (this post) but also no RC

Re: mountroot while booting r255342 memstick

2013-09-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/11/13 20:42, Uzumaki Naruto wrote: If the issue is GPT and MBR, I am quite sure this laptop BIOS doesn't support GPT disk type, because OEM Acer only gave GPT supported BIOS for model that pre-loaded with Windows 8. Maybe it helps to clarify, this laptop got no UEFI firmware, I could

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 02:01, Alexander Motin wrote: On 04.09.2013 00:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm how well tested/stable this patch set might be?? if theres positive input i have a zoo of dev machines i

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work? -Nathan #define GET_STACK_USAGE(total, used) GET_STACK_USAGE sets the variable passed

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 11:00, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 10:11:28 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can

Re: GCC withdraw

2013-08-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/30/13 00:35, David Chisnall wrote: On 30 Aug 2013, at 08:18, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: As far as I'm concerned we can even slate it for possible removal in 10.2-- if clang has proven up to the task I would be happy to ship gcc, as long as: - It's explicitly marked as

Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

2013-08-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/25/13 18:41, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: I object. Many ports that compiles perfectly on gcc 4.2.1 can't be compiled with lang/gcc. I checked this once and the number of ports that require strictly gcc 4.2.1 was bigger for me then number of

Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

2013-08-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/23/13 07:26, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 23/08/2013 14:06 David Chisnall said the following: Our gcc is from 2007. It has no C11, no C++11 support. It has bugs in its atomic generation so you can't use it sensibly without lots of inline assembly (which it doesn't support for newer

Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

2013-08-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/23/13 07:30, Ian Lepore wrote: On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 12:06 +0100, David Chisnall wrote: On 23 Aug 2013, at 11:42, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: no, I believe we have said that 10 would ship with clang by default. NO mention was made about gcc being absent, and I am

Re: dialog4ports crashing in head recently

2013-06-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 06/23/13 14:52, Dan Mack wrote: dialog4ports has been crashing on all of my systems for about the last week. I rebuilt it with debug symbols and this is what I got (doesn't matter which port is using it). Anyone else seeing this? libdialog was updated recently. I had to rebuild

Re: 10-CURRENT i386 memstick snapshots broken?

2013-06-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 06/08/13 14:17, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 12:10:16PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Jun 8, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Has anyone else tried the i386 memstick and having the same problem? Hmm. Thanks

Re: FreeBSD is very slow when Memory chip sizes are imbalanced in slots

2013-03-18 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 03/18/13 07:18, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dkwrote: In message CAFHbX1KkD7fWP+KZNrSjzCStUM_Smjw7GdKDTo= djjmoe5t...@mail.gmail.com, Tom Evans writes: You say this, have you actually measured/checked. sysutils/dmidecode

Re: DVD/CD lost after r246713

2013-02-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 02/22/13 06:08, Claude Buisson wrote: On 02/22/2013 09:21, Konstantin Belousov wrote: skipped You need to provide the dmesg from r246713 and r246712 to compare. The note that r246711 snapshot exhibited this same problem makes me sceptical. Here are the verbose dmesg from r246712 and

Re: DVD/CD lost after r246713

2013-02-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 02/22/13 15:46, Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. ATAPI devices on legacy ATA controllers were lost due to command timeout caused by data underrun, caused by r246713. r247165 should fix the issue. Mine is on AHCI. Should that have been fixed too? -Nathan

Re: HP p2-1334

2013-01-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/27/13 10:19, G B wrote: Recently I purchased an HP p2-1334 with an Inetl Core i3 and 6GB or RAM. My sole reason for purchasing it is to use virtualization which needs VT-x and EPT which the i3 has. However, my installations of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-amd64, FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-amd64,

Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

2013-01-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/06/13 09:59, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2013-01-06 15:17, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Here's a minimal test case that reproduces the bug: [...] Until someone fixes this bug, could we apply something like this as a

Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

2013-01-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/06/13 10:29, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 01/06/13 09:59, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2013-01-06 15:17, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Here's a minimal test case that reproduces the bug: [...] Until someone fixes this bug, could

Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

2013-01-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/06/13 11:46, David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jan 2013, at 14:17, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Here's a minimal test case that reproduces the bug: [...] Until someone fixes this bug, could we apply something like this as a

Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

2013-01-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/04/13 15:23, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:06:02PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:14:38PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Here's a minimal test case that reproduces

Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-02 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/02/13 07:04, Stefan Esser wrote: I'd be interested in the general policy on LINKS vs. SYMLINKS between directories that might end up on different file systems. There seems to be an assumption that system directories in /usr (e.g. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec) are on the same file

Re: svn commit: r244865 - in head: . lib lib/libdisk share/mk

2012-12-31 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/31/12 00:18, Juli Mallett wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: .. not that I mind old things being retired, but we really should announce things like this. Also - you disconnected libftpio too; is that intentional? I would assume so, given that

Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

2012-12-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/27/12 09:07, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Hi, I noticed that most of my C++ applications in recent versions of FreeBSD head suddenly crash without me recompiling them. I tracked it down to r243830 which imported a new clang version. The new clang seems to compile libgcc in a wrong or at

Re: VirtIO in GENERIC

2012-12-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/17/12 00:06, Andrew Thompson wrote: On 17 December 2012 18:06, Jim Harris jimhar...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Thompson thom...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 17 December 2012 13:17, Bryan Venteicher bry...@freebsd.org wrote: There's been lots of requests to

Re: wifi + wpa_supplicant in 9.1-RC3

2012-11-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/20/12 07:52, CeDeROM wrote: Hello :-) I have some problems with WiFi connectivity on my Dell Latitude E4310 laptop with Intel card. Very often connection is broken, although windows clients of the same network is working fine. I need to turn radio off and on, sometimes this does not help,

Re: November 5th is Clang-Day

2012-11-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/04/12 08:29, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2012-11-04 14:18, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:42:13PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: ... I tried building (using gcc) wine with your patch and now (at least) winecfg and regedit work with a clang built lib32. I'll email

Re: [head tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2012-10-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: TB --- 2012-10-27 23:08:18 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca @/dev/drm/drmP.h:122:36: error: machine/../linux/linux.h: No such file or directory @/dev/drm/drmP.h:123:42: error: machine/../linux/linux_proto.h: No such file or

Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/19/12 09:25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Firewire is - a significant security risk - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems - rapidly becoming obsolete - available as a module The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any serious objections

Re: Clang as default compiler November 4th

2012-09-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/11/12 09:56, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2012-09-11 16:27, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On 11-09-2012 16:10, Dimitry Andric wrote: ... Yes, maths support, specifically precision, is admittedly still one of clang's (really llvm's) weaker points. It is currently not really a high priority item for

Re: Customizing ubldr build...

2012-05-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 05/24/12 10:58, Damjan Marion wrote: On May 24, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 24, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Damjan Marion wrote: On May 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: I was looking into this few months ago but I didn't found a value in doing this in embedded world

Re: device_attach(9) and driver initialization

2012-04-07 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/07/12 07:50, Konstantin Belousov wrote: Hello, there seems to be a problem with device attach sequence offered by newbus. Basically, when device attach method is executing, device is not fully initialized yet. Also the device state in the newbus part of the world is DS_ALIVE. There is

Re: device_attach(9) and driver initialization

2012-04-07 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/07/12 10:15, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:04:59AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 04/07/12 07:50, Konstantin Belousov wrote: Hello, there seems to be a problem with device attach sequence offered by newbus. Basically, when device attach method is executing

Re: [PATCH] ACPI object refcount fix

2012-03-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 03/27/12 17:13, Jung-uk Kim wrote: The upstream maintainer just e-mailed me a possible fix for the problem and it looks very promising. Please try the attached patch. Note the patch reverts r233555 and applies the fix. This patch is also available from here:

Re: ABI/architecture identification for packages

2012-03-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 03/19/12 14:35, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hi all, In order to identify architectures I need to find a uniq id for every possibilities (for pkgng) here is the identification I propose: arch-class-os-majorversion(-archi_specific_extension) arch can be one of the following: - x86 for i386

Re: Problems with 9.0 PowerPC images from main ftp site

2012-02-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 02/19/12 04:28, Super Bisquit wrote: I decided to try burning an image from Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ And here are the following errors: 1.) The usb image doesn't boot. From following Whitehorn and others on the FreeBSD PowerPC

Re: revisiting tunables under Safe Mode menu option

2012-01-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 18:59 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: o hw.ata.ata_dma, hw.ata.atapi_dma - I am not sure if there have been any significant problems with ATA DMA recently. Maybe these could be removed? I still have to work with hardware

Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall

2012-01-05 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/04/12 14:56, Warner Losh wrote: On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: On 29/12/2011 18:39, Renato Botelho wrote: IIRC, PCBSD installer can install a regular FreeBSD on ZFS. It can do, but you're left with a /very/ basic installation - the hostname, network interfaces etc.

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/29/11 14:04, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:55:10 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, etc.) rather than requiring the user

Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall

2011-12-29 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/29/11 04:34, Mark Blackman wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Peter J. Cherny wrote: I believe removal of sysinstall exposes the community's blindness to a major parts of it's future, ZFS root. Other than following arcane recipes, the only way to create a system with ZFS root is by using

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/29/11 06:52, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:32:52 pm Lawrence Stewart wrote: On 12/28/11 06:29, Doug Barton wrote: On 12/27/2011 03:48, Lawrence Stewart wrote: On the topic of Doug's actual question, I see minimal sense in resurrecting sysinstall in head now. I

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, etc.) rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string would be one improvement. There are PRs for that and several other

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/29/11 12:51, Bruce Cran wrote: On 29/12/2011 16:37, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and especially specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people who are old hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally positive comments

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/18/11 04:34, Adrian Chadd wrote: The trouble is that there's lots of anecdotal evidence, but noone's really gone digging deep into _their_ example of why it's broken. The developers who know this stuff don't see anything wrong. That hints to me it may be something a little more creepy - as

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/11/11 08:39, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Daniel; --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischendeisc...@freebsd.org wrote: ... I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that could replace CVS in the above scenario.

Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

2011-12-05 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/05/11 10:47, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 201112051743.13483.mark.martinec+free...@ijs.si, Mark Martinec wri tes: Using a guided partitioning install of 9.0-RC2 on a 64GB (virtual) disk (from a 9.0-RC2 ISO image) results in the following GPT partitioning: # gpart show

Re: 9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall miscount of remaining diskspace after partition deletion.

2011-11-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/22/11 07:46, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, November 21, 2011 1:05:28 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 11/21/11 11:52, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, November 19, 2011 7:07:58 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 11/18/11 17:09, nev...@tx.net wrote: If you are performating a manual partion

Re: 9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall miscount of remaining diskspace after partition deletion.

2011-11-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/21/11 11:52, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, November 19, 2011 7:07:58 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 11/18/11 17:09, nev...@tx.net wrote: If you are performating a manual partion in 9.0-RC2 bsdinstall and you delete any created partition except the most recently created one, the total

Re: 9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall miscount of remaining diskspace after partition deletion.

2011-11-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/18/11 17:09, nev...@tx.net wrote: If you are performating a manual partion in 9.0-RC2 bsdinstall and you delete any created partition except the most recently created one, the total remaining space will be miscalculated. Reproducable as shown below. Workaround: if you delete a

Re: 9.0 NFS Installs

2011-11-07 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 11/07/11 11:20, Sean Bruno wrote: I noted that we no longer have the disc1.iso in this release. What should I use to populate a NFS rootfs for netinstalls? This was what I had been using(8.2-RELEASE) to populate NFS roots for netinstalls. This allowed you to boot up into something that was

Re: [RFC] FDT fix for 64 bit platforms

2011-10-15 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/15/11 01:12, Jayachandran C. wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10/14/11 14:10, Jayachandran C. wrote: I'm planning commit this -CURRENT if there an no objections. In the current implementation, phandle is used to store a pointer

Re: [RFC] FDT fix for 64 bit platforms

2011-10-14 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/14/11 14:10, Jayachandran C. wrote: I'm planning commit this -CURRENT if there an no objections. In the current implementation, phandle is used to store a pointer to the location inside the device tree. Since phandle_t is u32, this will not work on 64 bit platforms. With this fix, the

Re: 9.x installer and GPT vs geom

2011-10-13 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/13/11 04:25, O. Hartmann wrote: On 10/13/11 10:39, Johan Hendriks wrote: Hello all. I just used the 9.0 B3 installer, and it defaults to GPT, which is nice. However, and there has been some discussions about it, it would be nice if the installer warns me that i could get in trouble if i

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote: On Oct 9, 2011 8:52 AM, Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are there any general

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, Adrian Chaddadr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Obermankob6...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that the thumb drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board.

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/23/11 04:09, Fbsd8 wrote: I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after the completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts still remain on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic correctly, bsdinstall can ONLY be used for an original

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/19/11 02:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6727@bellsouth.net wrote: Some more ideas on the new bsdinstaller cross my mind. Since the way the bsdinstaller would make partitions is unpredictable, at least to the uninitiated, and

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-17 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/15/11 14:57, Fbsd8 wrote: Out of the 9 USA maps only us.iso.acc.kbd worked somewhat. The keyboard 9 key block above the arrow keys don't function. Issuing the man cmd_name command doe's display the man page, but the {Page up, Page down keys } don't work. Also when using the ee edit command

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-17 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/17/11 10:04, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. maybe name that button skip then? The button is provided by kbdmap, as is the entire screen. We could add an installer mode to kbdmap that names it skip instead of cancel, of course. I'm traveling for another 2 weeks and won't have time to do that,

Re: SSD - TRIM, SU and SUJ - Installer Options

2011-09-16 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/16/11 11:11, Marius Strobl wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:21:40PM +0200, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/08/11 16:22, mysph...@web.de wrote: Hi there, first off all I have to say, that your new Installer in FBSD v9.0 is very well done. I just found an option, which is not activated

Re: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable after upgrading to r225312

2011-09-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/11/11 13:31, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Sep-11 11:31:54 +0300, Andriy Gapona...@freebsd.org wrote: And I am actually wondering about -fno-unit-at-a-time option. In my opinion this is an anti-optimization option and it can actually increase a size of a final binary. In fact, it looks

Re: SSD - TRIM, SU and SUJ - Installer Options

2011-09-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/08/11 16:22, mysph...@web.de wrote: Hi there, first off all I have to say, that your new Installer in FBSD v9.0 is very well done. I just found an option, which is not activated at this time. So I wanted to ask, if it’s possible a bug or something like that. I’ve tried to change

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/01/11 14:00, Matt Thyer wrote: Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades! It uses GPT so that the partition can be labeled, and fstab will not need e.g. da0 hard-coded into it. makefs,

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote: On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote: Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? It seems wrong to have

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 22 August 2011 10:21, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Doing it that way is really, really error-prone, because you have to guess (a) whether gpart will accept certain configurations and (b) how it will handle requests. On some schemes, partititions have to be aligned or sized

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.08.2011 4:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: The larger problem is that this behavior means that destroying gparts sometimes doesn't work at all. For instance, if you have nested partitioning like MBR+BSD (or EBR) it is not possible to destroy

Re: installer freebsd9 bata1

2011-08-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Yampress wrote: Welcome I installed freebsd 9bata1 and noticed the installer does not create a user account's home directory. Have to manually create after installation. This was due to a temporary regression in pw(8) that managed to sneak into the BETA1 builds. It

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386)

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/20/11 02:22, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Freebsd-current. Maybe, everything is reported already, but I think, that better I'll be second, that no-one notice this: Manual partitioning chosen (1) Installer offer me bunch of Partition schemes, but only MBR and BSD have sense. Why

Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/10/11 18:17, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Andersonjonat...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, Love the new installer, but I do have a very small criticism of the guided partitioning screen: it's unclear at first glance which of the available buttons (Create,

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/21/11 15:49, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: On 08/18/11 18:24, Garrett Cooper wrote: So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/21/11 15:53, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Mattsendtom...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/18/11 16:24, Garrett Cooper wrote: So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently forgot

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386)

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/21/11 14:41, Kevin Oberman wrote: 2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakovl...@freebsd.org: Hello, Nathan. You wrote 21 августа 2011 г., 20:53:22: GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now Ok, I was not sure here. The Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table states

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/21/11 18:11, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: gpart does not support (well, anyway) changing the underlying partition table format without committing changes. Replacing the partition scheme, which this does, is such an operation. Weird. I

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/21/11 20:28, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: No, it's stupider than that. When you destroy a gpart without committing, the GEOM itself lingers as a (none)-type partitioning. This of course makes sense, since that ghost geom is what

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
(eg stuff which creates labels, raid devices, etc) should manipulate this table, not the kernel. Then when you're ready, you should write the updated table to disk. 2c, Adrian On 22 August 2011 09:48, Marcel Moolenaarmar...@xcllnt.net wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-18 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/18/11 18:24, Garrett Cooper wrote: So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently forgot that geom can't grok secondary PC MBR partitions, was fooling around and cleared the partitions, etc. I hit

Re: A replacement for GEOM_LABEL's gpt/gptid

2011-08-17 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/29/11 11:55, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 27.04.2011 11:37, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: I wrote a small extension for the GEOM_PART class. It adds an ability to GEOM_PART class to create partition labels for schemes which are support them. Hi All, i got several successful reports from

Re: FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly

2011-08-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/11/11 12:28, Vans wrote: Hi. No need, I think. There is a message box: Error while fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.0-BETA1/base.txz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) The 9.0-BETA1 ISOs cannot be used for network installations pending

Re: graid fresh install

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 11:01, Mike Tancsa wrote: I netbooted 9.0 Beta and was going to try and install the system onto a raid1 mirror built with graid. However, neither sysinstall nor bsdinstall see it fully I have the box netbooted (Intel Matrix raid) Could you test the patch at

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 10:58, Lars Engels wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:03:22PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: I've been trying out

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 17:35, Kevin Oberman wrote: I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would not want to see the old

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 20:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Obermankob6...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/06/11 12:18, Garrett Wollman wrote: In article4e3d55fd.7090...@freebsd.org, nwhiteh...@freebsd.org writes: I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Whenever you add a / partition on a partitioning scheme that requires a boot partition (APM, GPT on some platforms), the installer

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues

2011-08-03 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/03/11 14:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Marc Fonvieilleblack...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: I've

Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues

2011-08-02 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues: Good! Thanks for checking. Typo - Resovler Configuration. If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with:

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-25 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/25/11 18:12, Vadim Goncharov wrote: Hi Freddie Cash! On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:01:44 -0700; Freddie Cash wrote about 'Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.': 3) I see no post-install uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0 and never really had a problem with understanding the installation program. There is always a first time, I guess.

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/24/11 19:11, Claude Buisson wrote: On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0 and never really had a problem

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
08:11, Claude Buissonclbuis...@orange.fr wrote: On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0 and never really had a problem

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/24/11 18:03, Ron McDowell wrote: Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0 and never really had a problem with understanding

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. wait, the install-off-USB doesn't default to a read-only boot? Adrian On 25 July 2011 08:11, Claude Buissonclbuis...@orange.frwrote: On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote: I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote: On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote: 1) no back button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well, unacceptable. 2) no minimal install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed.

Re: kernel broken: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after XXX seconds for xpt_config

2011-06-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 06/23/11 16:57, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 06/23/11 18:29, David Wolfskill wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:12:54PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: ... SVN rev 223443 broke ATAPI support. SVN rev 223475 should fix it. Thanks -- that did resolve the issue for me. Peace, david Me, too. Thanks,

Re: kernel broken: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after XXX seconds for xpt_config

2011-06-23 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 06/23/11 17:17, Alexander Motin wrote: Nathan Whitehorn wrote: I'm still having problems with an ATA bus containing a DVD drive and a Zip driver (da). Can't it be some different problem? What are the symptoms? Hanging in run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks, immediately after probing

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