Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article 199903171205.naa25...@freebsd.dk you wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple. Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? Not if I can help it :) It could be done by slamming a translation layer ontop of

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article 199903171103.naa13...@ceia.nordier.com you wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: OK, easy enough, this is what I want to do: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple. I'd be inclined to handle this outside the boot code, by treating the passed in

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: In article 199903171205.naa25...@freebsd.dk you wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple. Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? Not if I can help it :) It could be done

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: In article 199903171103.naa13...@ceia.nordier.com you wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: OK, easy enough, this is what I want to do: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple. I'd be inclined to handle this outside the

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Robert Nordier
Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: Why not have the boot blocks pass in a device 'name' rather than a major number. If the goal is to ditch major numbers entirely with a properly working DEVFS, then using major numbers in the new boot loader seems to be the wrong

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Robert Nordier
Bob Willcox wrote: I have an LS-120 and I'd be happy to test the new boot code with it. Bob Thanks very much. I'll contact you and Andrzej when the changes are made. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: In article 199903171205.naa25...@freebsd.dk you wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple . Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? Not if I

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I half suspect that what Justin had in mind at some point was a set of common code that is either #ifdef'ed or otherwise preprocessed to produce a standalone 'SCSI-CAM' system versus an 'ATA[PI]-CAM' system. I .75 suspect that such a marriage would be caused by the second systems syndrome and

Re: IPSEC support?

1999-03-20 Thread Alex Le Heux
Steven P. Donegan wrote: Is there any IPSEC support available for current? I've found support for 2.2.8, but not so far for current. There is support for 3.1-REL. Work is being done for -current, I believe. Keep an eye on http://www.r4k.net/ipsec Alex --

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
I half suspect that what Justin had in mind at some point was a set of common code that is either #ifdef'ed or otherwise preprocessed to produce a standalone 'SCSI-CAM' system versus an 'ATA[PI]-CAM' system. This would have the advantage of having all the common code together in one place and

Re: panics while reading Solaris CDROM

1999-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David O'Brien obr...@nuxi.com writes: The core files from the panic seem to be useless -- I can't get anything useful out of ``where'' with a kernel w/debugging symbols: Link CD9660 support statically, instead of using the KLD module. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To

reproducable panic?

1999-03-20 Thread Adam McDougall
I seem to be able to reproduce a panic on my 4.0 machine (updated yesterday, kernel and world, also could crash with a somewhat older build) I have pseudo-device vn and nfs in my kernel, not as a module. When I vnconfig -c /dev/vn0c /nfsmountpoint/somefile, the system panics reliably. If

RE: unable to use cdrecord on an ATAPI CD-R under 2.2.8.

1999-03-20 Thread Christopher J. Michaels
Well, I'm sorry to say that it looks like I've found the answer to my own question. I found after this posting (by looking at dmesg) that I was getting the following error. acd0: rezero failed I did some searching and found several postings in -current that said my drive, a MITSUMI

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Søren Schmidt wrote: there certainly is a way to work out the name. Perhaps in the autoboot case you'll have to guess, but it would be nice if the current boot mechanism allowed user intervention as a way to boot a kernel with an unknown bdev. YES!! can we please have that ?? As I

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
It's been a couple more weeks, anyone now know why fd(4) is broken? It's really not a good thing :( Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ |

Re: panics while reading Solaris CDROM

1999-03-20 Thread David O'Brien
The core files from the panic seem to be useless -- I can't get anything useful out of ``where'' with a kernel w/debugging symbols: Link CD9660 support statically, instead of using the KLD module. First thing I tried. :-) Bruce's vfs_bio.c fix was the trick. -- -- David

Re: reproducable panic?

1999-03-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I seem to be able to reproduce a panic on my 4.0 machine (updated :yesterday, kernel and world, also could crash with a somewhat older :build) : :I have pseudo-device vn and nfs in my kernel, not as a module. : :When I vnconfig -c /dev/vn0c /nfsmountpoint/somefile, the system panics :reliably.

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-20 Thread Thomas Dean
I submitted a PR. This is not a show-stopper. I have a system running 2.2.7. fd works on that one. So, I read/write floppies there. It is a pain, though. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: reproducable panic?

1999-03-20 Thread Adam
Ok I've been playing around a bit, an iso sized file (500-600mb) seems to trigger it, and a quite small file seemed to do it too but I forgot which one, but just now I made a one byte file and vnconfig'ed it and that paniced. Please try that if you can :) btw I tried a 32mb file like you, also a

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
Aye, and my LS-120 works great too :) So, que sera sera. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
But hey, I don't have the time to work on ATAPI. Soren does, so he gets to call the shots. Right :) ... so we lose. 8( Soren, please take a little time to understand what Justin is talking about. The parts of CAM that are relevant to you are the queueing support, infrastructure, and

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
The major number passed to the kernel is a product of a lot of guesswork, because the loader has simply not enough information. I have added a bit of code to my version of loader so you can use the variable root_device_major_number to override the major number to be passed to the kernel. I'm

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread David E. Cross
The major number passed to the kernel is a product of a lot of guesswork, because the loader has simply not enough information. I have added a bit of code to my version of loader so you can use the variable root_device_major_number to override the major number to be passed to the

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mike Smith wrote: The major number passed to the kernel is a product of a lot of guesswork, because the loader has simply not enough information. I have added a bit of code to my version of loader so you can use the variable root_device_major_number to override the major number to be

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
The major number passed to the kernel is a product of a lot of guesswork, because the loader has simply not enough information. I have added a bit of code to my version of loader so you can use the variable root_device_major_number to override the major number to be passed to the

broken world

1999-03-20 Thread Hostas Red
Hi! For a couple weeks for now i have a broken world with following reason: === usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd/../isdnmonitor -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd/../isdntel -I/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd -DDEBUG -DUSE_RTPRIO -DUSE_CURSES

Possible fix for rc.conf

1999-03-20 Thread Scot W. Hetzel
What does everyone think about using this at the end of /etc/defaults/rc.conf? for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do if [ $0 != $i ]; then if [ -f $i ]; then . $i fi else echo Error: $0 isn't allowed to re-load $i. echo Error: Please do not copy

Re: Possible fix for rc.conf

1999-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Scot W. Hetzel hetz...@westbend.net writes: if [ $0 != $i ]; then A more generic fix is for each script to set an environment variable, and check to make sure that variable was not set already. Analogous to how C include files prevent recursive inclusion. -- Rahul Dhesi

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
My main complaint so far about the new ATAPI stuff is that it duplicates or lacks (assuming it will be implemented) much of what CAM would have given for almost free: - Interrupt driven configuration That there allready, if we mean the same thing here. Right. Its duplicated functionality.

NetBoot 3Com card.

1999-03-20 Thread RT
I have a couple of 905B 3com cards. I'm interested in running diskless (especially since a harddisk in the one machine just died). After reading the handbook, I found the diskless information to be extreamly outdated. Does netboot now support the 905 line of 3com cards? (Any test drivers out

Re: Possible fix for rc.conf

1999-03-20 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: If someone does copy the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf will not reload it's self, thus it will never get stuck in an endless loop. Oh it's too late for that. :) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a core file. I also tried the other options and they seem to work. Just RFPROC and RFMEM DON'T! Thanks, Michael Mercer Can any one suggest how to use rfork( RFPROC |

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread John S. Dyson
Michael E. Mercer said: Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a core file. I also tried the other options and they seem to work. Just RFPROC and RFMEM DON'T! rfork(RFMEM) doesn't easily work from C. You need to create an

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Michael E. Mercer
John, With very little experience in assembly, could you or someone else give me a small example? Thanks in advance, Michael Mercer John S. Dyson wrote: Michael E. Mercer said: Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: Michael E. Mercer said: Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a core file. I also tried the other options and they seem to work. Just RFPROC and RFMEM DON'T! rfork(RFMEM)

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread John S. Dyson
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: Michael E. Mercer said: Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a core file. I also tried the other options and they seem to work. Just RFPROC and RFMEM DON'T!

Re: IPSEC support?

1999-03-20 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
Is there any IPSEC support available for current? I've found support for 2.2.8, but not so far for current. KAME has support for 3.1-RELEASE. I don't know how far -current has diverged, but you might want to try www.kame.net. KAME is IP6 and IPSEC, but you can compile it with only IPSEC.

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: Michael E. Mercer said: Hello, This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply. I tried this and the child process created a core file. I also tried the other options and they seem to

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
: rfork(RFMEM) doesn't easily work from C. You need to : create an assembly stub. : : -- : John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, : dy...@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid : jdy...@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. : : : I've seen about 6 people