Re: -current PCVT breakage?

2000-03-23 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
From the keyboard of Matthew Jacob: Is someone planning on fixing this? Yes! hellmuth -- Hellmuth MichaelisTel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbHFax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Mike Smith: Try putting just "set autoboot_delay=0" in /boot/loader.rc and see if that gives you a prompt. In loader.conf you mean ? loader.rc is supposed to contain Forth... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TEC -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Postman hits! The Postman hits! You

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
According to Mike Smith: Try putting just "set autoboot_delay=0" in /boot/loader.rc and see if that gives you a prompt. In loader.conf you mean ? loader.rc is supposed to contain Forth... I wrote the damn thing. I meant loader.rc. You're welcome to make the appropriate changes in

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Sabban
Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen. I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it shouldn't hurt to LL the drives. -eric Mike Smith wrote: Try low-levelling the drives. The behavior sounds similar to what I had a long time ago, low

Re: FreeBSD random I/O performance issues

2000-03-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:17 AM +0100 2000/3/23, FREENIX IS OVERRATED wrote: Without really tuning anything, after a bit of time, the time needed to do history lookups drops to microseconds, and as long as a `sync' isn't needed, innd doesn't get stuck. Theoretically, a sync, where you are in fact seeking

Re: Another current crash (cvs-cur.6183

2000-03-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:14 PM -0800 2000/3/22, Matthew Dillon wrote: Frankly, I have INVARIANTS (and INVARIANT_SUPPORT) turned on by default on all of my kernels. If it's this useful and this lightweight, may I suggest that we change the descriptive text around it in the LINT kernel, and copy

** HEADS UP ** cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools Makefile src/gnu/lib/libgcc Makefile src/contrib/gcc/config freebsd.h src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd.h src/contrib/gcc/config/alpha freebsd.h

2000-03-23 Thread David O'Brien
This commit -- changing much of the configuration of GCC on a FreeBSD host, has the potential to wreck havoc. One typo in these files can render your compiler dead. I have tested these changes on both i386 and DEC Alpha. However your environment may tickle an area of the configuration mine

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Mike Smith: Try putting just "set autoboot_delay=0" in /boot/loader.rc and see if that gives you a prompt. In loader.conf you mean ? loader.rc is supposed to contain Forth... Forth + "user friendly" loader commands, which the above is supposed to be.

Re: Found problem with pcm

2000-03-23 Thread Nick Hibma
Have you overclocked your system? If you are using an Athlon box, do you have an extra fan on the bridge chip? MP3's are heavy on the processor and will get you this behaviour if the system is prone to glitches. My system had similar problem (Fine until you run a make world) and Windows

current panics

2000-03-23 Thread Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen
Hi, I know it isn't much (no debugger compiled in (yet)), but is anybody else seeing panics like this: mode = 0100644, inum = 214354, fs = /data0 panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc syncing disks... 23 13 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up on 2 buffers Uptime: 3m24s

Re: [usb-bsd] USB to Serial Port , anyone working on it?

2000-03-23 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:00:17AM +, Nick Hibma wrote: Yes. Doug Ambrisko (Whistle Communications) has written the beginnings of a driver (but it works!). I've meant to check out the work he has done and see for which devices this works. I will do that sometime this week (weekend

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Daniel C. Sobral: Or just pressing space when the countdown message first appears... No time for that. MM... the countdown message is 10 seconds long. It crashes before going through the countdown??? Damn, I wish I could see the log of this boot.

Re: [usb-bsd] USB to Serial Port , anyone working on it?

2000-03-23 Thread Nick Hibma
His code is very generic, so I've got good hopes that the code will work for many different devices (read: Entrega 25 pin, 9 pin, Keyspan adapter and more). Any pointer to this driver ? I have a USB to 8 port serial from Digi and would love to try if the driver works with it. Ah, it

Re: Buildworld hung up with lots of cron processes

2000-03-23 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 22/03, Jim Bloom wrote: | I had hangs while linking the kernel as | well as while trying to install a fixed one. Make sure you have a good backup | of the kernel, I ended up with a zero byte kernel while trying to install the | fixed one. Well, running without swap is likely to suppress

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Ollivier Robert
MM... the countdown message is 10 seconds long. It crashes before going through the countdown??? Yes. Damn, I wish I could see the log of this boot. I can't record it and it goes way too fast to tell. IIRC, you only have "include /boot/loader.4th" and "start" in your loader.rc,

Re: KDE kdm problem with packaged version (make releaseissue?)

2000-03-23 Thread R. Imura
For a long time I have noticed that when I build kdm from the kdebase port, it works. But if I used packages off either the CDs or ftp sites, it doesn't work. Specifically if I do a 'strings' on the binary and grep for /, some of the paths I see have XBINDIR rather than explicit references

Re: -current PCVT breakage?

2000-03-23 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
From the keyboard of Matthew Jacob: Is someone planning on fixing this? ../../i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_hdr.h:943: warning: `struct isa_device' declared inside parameter list ../../i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_hdr.h:943: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen. Apart from screwing up the factory format. I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it shouldn't hurt to LL the drives. It should, and will. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

parallel zip driver problem

2000-03-23 Thread J McKitrick
I'm not sure if this belongs on -stable or -current. Has anyone taken a look at the timeout problem in the parallel port zip driver? jm -- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pure... unrefined... spice

Re: parallel zip driver problem

2000-03-23 Thread J McKitrick
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:46:57AM -0500, Sean O'Connell wrote: J McKitrick stated: I'm not sure if this belongs on -stable or -current. Has anyone taken a look at the timeout problem in the parallel port zip driver? Have you tried backing vpo.c down to 1.19 (1.20 was committed on 23

Re: -current PCVT breakage?

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
options COMPAT_OLDISA options COMPAT_OLDPCI I'm an idiot - I should have paid closer attention to some other commits. Thanks! to my some-days-old kernel config file to make things compile and work again. The time seems to have come to new-busify pcvt ...

Re: RSA library problems

2000-03-23 Thread Paul Richards
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Paul Richards wrote: Because the dlopen() of librsaintl.so fails. Ok, I give up :-) Why would that happen then ? I don't know :-) I stuck a dlerror() in there and the problem is usr/lib/librsaINTL.so: Undefined symbol "BN_mod_exp_mont"

Re: [usb-bsd] USB to Serial Port , anyone working on it?

2000-03-23 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Nick Hibma writes: | The pointer to the source I can't give, because it has escaped me | whether I sorted out the licensing issue with Doug Ambrisko. I'd rather | would like to sort that out first. This shouldn't be an issue since it is the same license as the netgraph license from Whistle. I

INVARIANTS doesn't work?

2000-03-23 Thread Brad Knowles
Folks, It looks to me like setting INVARIANTS in your kernel doesn't work in 4.0-STABLE. This one drove me batty for most of the day, until I remembered that I had also enabled this stuff as well as a couple other changes I had wanted to make to my kernel config. In

Fatal trap 12 in 5.0-C

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, From yesterday and today cvsup + make world + kernel build : each time i try to mount a cd (this is not related to a particular cd as the same pb arises when the drive is empty...), my system reboot : /kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode /kernel: fault virtual address

Re: INVARIANTS doesn't work?

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
I just did a full buildworld/installworld and complete recompile of RELENG_4 last night with INVARIANTS turned on, and I use makeoptions DEBUG=-g. It worked fine. Make sure you also specify the INVARIANT_SUPPORT options (note: this one is not plural).

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen. : :Apart from screwing up the factory format. : : I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it :shouldn't hurt to LL the drives. : :It should, and will. : :-- :\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Sabban
I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to be mentioned) OS happened to me. After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A cow-orker told me to LL the drive, and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I tend to think there is something wrong with sysinstall... obviously, the OS works as the internal drives (also LVD 10KRPM drives) work. Sysinstall just tells me there aren't any disks in the system. So, hope whomever maintains sysinstall is monitoring this conversation. I will attempt

Re: INVARIANTS doesn't work?

2000-03-23 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: Folks, It looks to me like setting INVARIANTS in your kernel doesn't work in 4.0-STABLE. [...] reference to `zerror' vm_zone.o: In function `zfreei': The kernel config is a bit large, so I will transmit it on request to interested

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
I say again, DO NOT low-level format the drive. The _only_ situation where it's worth taking this risk is when you're seeing errors from the drive itself specifically referring to formatting issues; eg. 'address mark not found'. There are no other circumstances which justify this action,

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
I tend to think there is something wrong with sysinstall... obviously, the OS works as the internal drives (also LVD 10KRPM drives) work. Sysinstall just tells me there aren't any disks in the system. So, hope whomever maintains sysinstall is monitoring this conversation. Sysinstall

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to be :mentioned) OS happened to me. :After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A :cow-orker told me to LL the drive, :and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make buildworld/installworld? Anyways, I rebuilt it and it works now. Sysinstall was the culprit. _F At 10:08 AM 3/23/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: I tend to think there is something wrong with sysinstall... obviously, the OS works as

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make buildworld/installworld? As I told you in my original reply, _NO_. Anyways, I rebuilt it and it works now. Sysinstall was the culprit. "I told you so". -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell

Re: INVARIANTS doesn't work?

2000-03-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:45 AM -0800 2000/3/23, Matthew Dillon wrote: Make sure you also specify the INVARIANT_SUPPORT options (note: this one is not plural). DOH!!! open mouthinsertfoot/insert/open Rebooting now. We'll see if it works. Sigh ;-) Thanks guys!

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ollivier Robert wrote: .( Here ) cr Will try, hope I'll be able to see them :) Is there a way to do a "sleep 5" ? 5000 ms Or, to wait for a keypress: key -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule

Re: -current sudden panics :(

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
This problem should now be fixed, it's probably the problem I just fixed a moment ago in netinet/if_ether.c based on a thread in -hackers. The m_pullup() NULL check in arpintr() was broken, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

Re: -current sudden panics :(

2000-03-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Dillon writes: : This problem should now be fixed, it's probably the problem I just fixed : a moment ago in netinet/if_ether.c based on a thread in -hackers. The : m_pullup() NULL check in arpintr() was broken, resulting in a NULL : pointer

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread mw
I've played around changing the spinloop to using DELAY (like the Linux model), but this didn't prevent the controller from either "just" locking up or crashing the whole machine with it. Changing various other places in a similar manner (like replacing the bcopy() in amr_quartz_get_work() with

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: attention yet, but I do see that your problem relates to soft updates. It's not clear that the soft updates themselves are a cause of the problem, or just a facilitator, but it would be interesting to I did try it couple

-current, ep and fragment problems.

2000-03-23 Thread Dan Moschuk
Is anyone else seeing odd behaviour with a fairly recent -current, an ep driver nic card and fragmented packets? -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, this is NOT a softupdates *or* a vinum problem. This is a buffer cache problem. The problem is due to the large block size you are using when newfs'ing the filesystem coupled with problems in geteblk() which causes severe buffer cache KVM fragmentation. Softupdates

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should be solved by my previous email. The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no idea what is causing it so this issue

ppp oddity

2000-03-23 Thread Randy Bush
usually ppp from laptop (3.4+pao) to home (4.0-stable) works fine. and then sometimes it will get stuck in the following mode three N in a row. ppp[547]: tun0: Chat: Send: AT^M ppp[547]: tun0: Chat: Expect(5): OK ppp[547]: tun0: Chat: Received: AT^M^M ppp[547]: tun0: Chat: Received: OK^M

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000323 12:47] wrote: I've played around changing the spinloop to using DELAY (like the Linux model), but this didn't prevent the controller from either "just" locking up or crashing the whole machine with it. Changing various other places in a similar

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
I've played around changing the spinloop to using DELAY (like the Linux model), but this didn't prevent the controller from either "just" locking up or crashing the whole machine with it. Changing various other places in a similar manner (like replacing the bcopy() in amr_quartz_get_work()

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread mw
I've found the easiest way to wedge the box is to perform a 'cvs up' (not cvsup) from a local repository over /usr/src or /usr/ports, this would always lockup my box with amr, if you have the time and disk space that would be a much better stressor than just make world. I have done a cvs

Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2

2000-03-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Beattie writes: : Winner! Much better than my personal favorite of bigbooty.flp. :-) : : - Jordan : : : Then that would make the CD LordWarfen.iso? I had the chance to register john.net way back when. I was going to name the machines warfen.john.net,

Re: -current sudden panics :(

2000-03-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yoshinobu Inoue writes: : I would like to narrow down the problem more and could you : please try if this patch stop the problem or not? : (The m_pullup() is recently added to if_rl.c. It should not be : harmful, but I suspect that this might have invoked another :

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 23, Matthew Dillon wrote: Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should be solved by my previous email. The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no idea

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread mw
Can you try instead the changes that I just committed to -current? I think that the problem shows up when the controller is heavily loaded; your patch will keep the load on the controller down, which may mask the 'real' bug. I tried your approach (that was what I described with "fiddling

Re: -current PCVT breakage?

2000-03-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jacob writes: : I'm an idiot - I should have paid closer attention to some other commits. And the UPDATING file too :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Fatal trap 12 in 5.0-C

2000-03-23 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Yes, same here, and it looks like it's after the last ATAPI commit (worked perfectly before that, Delta 44x ATAPI CD-ROM): ~ gdb -k /sys/compile/KUSHNIR/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 [...] IdlePTD 2797568 initial pcb at 232ce0 panicstr: page fault [...] --- #0 boot (howto=256) at

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 20:17:13 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes: Well, let me tell you what the fuzzy goal is first and then maybe we can work backwards. Eventually all physical I/O needs a physical address. The quickest

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 14:04:48 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: If a particular subsystem needs b_data, then that subsystem is obviously willing to take the virtual mapping / unmapping hit. If you look at Greg's current code this is, in fact, what is occuring the critical

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Eventually all physical I/O needs a physical address. The quickest way to get to a physical address is to be given an array of vm_page_t's (which can be trivially translated to physical addresses). Not all: PIO access to ATA needs virtual access. RAID5 needs virtual access

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 15:23:31 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 20), Poul-Henning Kamp said: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: * Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote: Before we redesign the clustering, I would like to know if we

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 22:52:59 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: * Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if

Optimisation patch

2000-03-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Any objections to the following? Index: make.conf === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v retrieving revision 1.101 diff -u -u -r1.101 make.conf --- make.conf 2000/03/22 00:49:20 1.101 +++ make.conf 2000/03/23

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 March 2000 at 9:29:56 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I would think that track-caches and intelligent drives would gain much if not more of what clustering was designed to do gain. Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger I/Os is preferable over

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 23), Greg Lehey said: Agreed. This is on the Vinum wishlist, but it comes at the expense of reliability (how long do you wait to cluster? What happens if the system fails in between?). In addition, for Vinum it needs to be done before entering the hardware

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Mar-00 Mike Smith wrote: Just rebuild sysinstall, like I told you to start with. Or just bring the disks up by hand, which is much faster. Or even try Warner's 'diskprep' tool. If anyone want diskprep, its at... http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep --- Daniel O'Connor

problem solved. (was: Re: Not actually)

2000-03-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:33:11AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In the mean time, I've recompiled a freshly cvsup'ed kernel, booted it, and now I'm trying to build my world -- since it seems that compiling the kernel and/or `world' triggers the funny condition I'm running into. I rebuilt

Write clustering (was: patches for test / review)

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 23 March 2000 at 17:44:38 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 23), Greg Lehey said: Agreed. This is on the Vinum wishlist, but it comes at the expense of reliability (how long do you wait to cluster? What happens if the system fails in between?). In addition,

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make buildworld/installworld? No. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One

/dev/acd0 related crash?

2000-03-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
I built from sources cvsup'ed about 24 hours ago, my kernel and world, this afternoon. After enabling INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT, I booted and tried a lot of things. Nothing seemed to make the new kernel I had (and it's own modules + world) go crazy ;) However, when I tried to run

Re: Optimisation patch

2000-03-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any objections to the following? I don't mind at all ... I was wondering about just taking out the ability to even USE -O2 in the compiler, but there're probably *some* non-kernel related reasons for

Re: -current sudden panics :(

2000-03-23 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
: This problem should now be fixed, it's probably the problem I just fixed : a moment ago in netinet/if_ether.c based on a thread in -hackers. The : m_pullup() NULL check in arpintr() was broken, resulting in a NULL : pointer dereference. inoue-san's patch survived the

[Q]4.0-Release file system

2000-03-23 Thread Vladik
Hello, My FreeBSD partition is installed on a cyl. beyound 1024. So FreeBSD boot manager does not work. Howerver with 3.4 release I was able to use this great boot loader called GRUB. In there I could mount a root file system and then load the kernel. Something has changed in the 4.0 Release

Re: [Q]4.0-Release file system

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Try loading the loader (/boot/loader) rather than the kernel. You might also try using the boot0 bootmanager (see the manpage for boot0cfg) with the 'packet' option set, which will DTRT. You may also need to rebuild boot1/boot2 with the 'packet mode' flags set; see the boot1 sources in

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Laurence Berland
I just had to do that a few days ago, but it didn't work. Apparently DOS is very stupid, and without dding the entire DOS partition it wouldn't work. Who knows why. Low-levels are a bad idea. I know someone who managed to ruin a number of disks trying that. Laurence Matthew Dillon wrote:

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Dean
Mike Smith wrote: I've played around changing the spinloop to using DELAY (like the Linux model), but this didn't prevent the controller from either "just" locking up or crashing the whole machine with it. Changing various other places in a similar manner (like replacing the bcopy() in

Re: Optimisation patch

2000-03-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi folks, %On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: % % Any objections to the following? % %I don't mind at all ... I was wondering about just taking out the ability %to even USE -O2 in the compiler, but there're probably *some* non-kernel %related reasons for using it, and we shouldn't block

Re: -current sudden panics :(

2000-03-23 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: This problem should now be fixed, it's probably the problem I just fixed a moment ago in netinet/if_ether.c based on a thread in -hackers. The m_pullup() NULL check in arpintr() was broken, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

Re: Optimisation patch

2000-03-23 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any objections to the following? Index: make.conf === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v retrieving revision 1.101 diff -u -u -r1.101 make.conf --- make.conf

Re: Optimisation patch

2000-03-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: Yes. make.conf shouldn't even hint that globally changing CFLAGS is supported or good. Note that the suggested "most common use" has been bogus since -pipe was added to the default settings in rev.1.31 (1998/05/01) of sys.mk. Hmm. What is the

Re: -current, ep and fragment problems.

2000-03-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[cc:'d shin] -On [2324 00:04], Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is anyone else seeing odd behaviour with a fairly recent -current, an ep driver nic card and fragmented packets? Yes. And add to that a fxp card as well next to the ep card. For some weird reason (almost) every packet

Re: /dev/acd0 related crash?

2000-03-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I built from sources cvsup'ed about 24 hours ago, my kernel and world, this afternoon. After enabling INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT, I booted and tried a lot of things. Nothing seemed to make the new kernel I had (and it's own modules + world) go crazy

fd0: Debugger(d_iocmd botch) called.

2000-03-23 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
Accessing fd0 (1440) floppies have been impossible with CURRENT on both test machines here since 4.0 was released. The following are as of cvsup yesterday: (83) [11:30pm] ttyp8:--ROOT--@mrynet (83): dd if=/dev/rfd0.1440 bs=512 x dd: /dev/rfd0.1440: Input/output error 0+0