On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Sean Bruno wrote:
se> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/est_man.txt
Looks good. Attached a diff for some small fixes.
Updated again with feedback that I've gotten.
I changed the "Note that est interface is
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
On 14.06.2012 17:08, Olivier Smedts wrote:
2012/6/14 Andrey V. Elsukov :
Also, our PMBR image doesn't contain any partition entries and
writing it to the disk with dd(1) makes the system unbootable.
What you think if we will add one partition entry
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, O. Hartmann wrote:
I find myself a bit floating when I looked for snapshot images for
DVD/CD for rescue discs for FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64. I can not find
anything following the webpage www.freebsd.org! Most links with
"snapshot" or places like ISO-Images-X refere to s
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote:
I have working touchpad (it is work fine before) and mouse with hacked
devd.conf (doesn't try tip from gjb@ yet)
from my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice
This is an older Dell E1505, Core 2 but does not have AHCI.
r255569 does not find /dev/ada0s2a and "?" at the mountroot> prompt
shows no devices.
r255451 from September 10 boots fine.
Also possibly relevant is that after successfully building and
installing world and kernel, /boot/kernel.old
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Jan Kokemüller wrote:
r255569 does not find /dev/ada0s2a and "?" at the mountroot> prompt
shows no devices.
I've had the same problem after I updated my kernel today. I tracked it
down to the hyperv drivers that were added in r255524. Without the "device
hyperv" line in my
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
Hi all,
I'm here again!
When I start my box, the moused is run. My mouse is an USB mouse.
I put in rc.conf this knob: moused_enable="NO", but is ignored by
start up script and moused is run, this is a problem to the HAL, because
th
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:
As usual with such upgrades, pkg_libchk is your friend. Assuming you have
updated pixman:
portmaster graphics/libGL graphics/dri
pkg_libchk -o | grep pixman | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq > pixman-files.txt
portmaster =D `cat pixman-files.txt`
portmaster -aD
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote:
Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall:
1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt to no
Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/162175 .
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote:
On 2013-10-07 16:43, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote:
Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall:
1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt
to no
Please see http://www.freeb
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Freddie Cash wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
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 is 4K (aka ashift=12).
Right, but to emphasize: the gnop
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Teske, Devin wrote:
"But shell is nasty; slow; and not as powerful as C" (it depends in what
context; the first is rhetoric, the second is only true for poor implement-
ations, and the third may be true in some contexts, but I consider the
answer to "how maintainable is it" t
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Joe Nosay wrote:
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Joe Nosay wrote:
Someone had to tell me what to do.
Steve, are you the only person in the multiverse that is free of making any
mistakes?
Nobody was accusing you of doing it intentionally. Anyway, that problem
is now
On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hi!
I have an odd problem. That, honestly, can't be that odd.
I have a bunch of SATA disks that when plugged into the laptop
directly, show up as 512 byte sectors. But if I plug it in via this
iomega USB caddy, they show up as 4k sector devices.
ISTR s
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On 10 Nov 2013, at 24:24, Matthew Seaman wrote:
2) Should ports / packages populate these cron.d directories?
This is a much more interesting question. Effectively its asking
if a port / package should provide some level of automati
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Philipp Ost wrote:
Warren Block schrieb:
[...]
ie either the file is named such that it is ignored by cron
(preferable IMO) or the entries in them are commented out.
Why not just use an additional entry in rc.conf?
rsnapshot_cron="YES"
(If there is a /usr
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
+--On 27 décembre 2013 10:28:07 -0500 Thomas Hoffmann
wrote:
| All the examples I've seen for updating bootcode assume GPT. If one has
| MBR (as I do) and assuming the following basic scheme:
|
| gpart show ada0
| => 63 976773105 ada0 MBR (46
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, David Chisnall wrote:
Hi Johannes,
Are you using the packaged Xorg in both cases? Currently, the default for 10
is the old (pre-KMS) X.org and the default for 11 (HEAD) is the newer
(post-KMS) one. If you're using the default one, would you mind trying the new
one? You
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Jakub Lach wrote:
I plan to stay some time on 9.2-STABLE (already pkgng and clangfied) waiting
maybe till next release from 10-STABLE tree, however 10-STABLE will be where
I will be eventually heading, so notes in this spirit are valuable reminders
at least, I appreciate it.
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Hoffmann wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>
>
> Using -DNOCLEAN with an existing /usr/obj can go even faster than
ccache:
> less than two m
tions, suggestions and other kinds of reviewing are
welcome. Patches and pull requests are very welcome!
Many thanks to Warren Block for the initial review and many fixes.
One fix for the gptzfsboot man page would be to mention that
gptzfsboot is installed into a GPT partition of type freebsd-boot
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote:
On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:19 pm Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
Hi,
After our previous discuss [1] I prepare fdclosedir(3) function which
was committed by Pawel (cc'ed) in commit r254499.
A while ago I also prepare the fdclose function. Unfortunately, th
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:38:57 am Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote:
On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:19 pm Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
Hi,
After our previous discuss [1] I prepare fdclosedir(3) function which
was
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Warren Block writes:
John Baldwin writes:
Warren Block writes:
.Fn fdclose
is equivalent to
.Fn fclose ,
but the file descriptor is returned rather than closed.
Yes, but this has the 'no capital letter at the start of a sentence
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Warren Block writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
We always use [The .Nm foo utility or The .Fn foo function] instead
of just .Nm or .Fn at the start of a sentence, but never (or rarely)
within a sentence.
By "we", do you mean t
On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:45:52AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure
in which cases it does this, but it is annoying)
This happens when
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Julio Merino wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Konstantin Belousov
wrote:
It is the same as the debugging kernel. The INVARIANTS, WITNESS, DEBUG
and DIAGNOSTIC options are not enabled for the user consumption.
No; this is not the same at all. All the options you men
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, d...@gmx.com wrote:
In other words, "You, the general user, should learn the art of operating
system development (on your own) for the sole purpose of being able to fix
the bug yourself."
It's one approach to solving a technical problem, but not the only one.
You can fix
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Chris Ross wrote:
Looking at the man page for gpart(8) on a recent 10-stable system, I was
trying to find out what the -a option to list does. (shown in the output of
gpart when run with no parameters). Interestingly, despite ?list? being
highlighted in paragraph text
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan wrote:
Hi,
I am getting Boot loader too large message while using
FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20140701-r268111-disc1.iso
Is there any way to solve this issue?
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
What I'd like to see is an article on freebsd.org either on the wiki
or in the handbook, which compares using apt, yum, rpm, whatever
to pkg. Is anyone interested in working on an article like this?
I don't have the bandwidth right now.
A person to
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Wollman
wrote:
In article you write:
>Writing "an article" is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting
>packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Eric L. Camachat wrote:
/usr/local/libexec/ppf_verify: pgp command failed
gpg: Signature made Sun Aug 10 16:49:09 2014 MDT
gpg:using DSA key 0x49F050BB7A0EC18C
gpg: Can't check sign
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Chris H wrote:
I also read that hw.vga.textmode is available. However sysctl
hw.vga.textmode returns unknown oid.
It is a boot-time-only setting for loader.conf.
hw.vga.textmode=1
boots in text mode.
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Daniel Eischen wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Tim Kientzle wrote:
On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Chris H wrote:
Greetings,
I'm currently testing 11. My build / install is from about 2 days ago.
I generally use xz compression, when creating archives. But when I
attempt the f
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Chris Rees wrote:
On 14 April 2013 01:41, Rui Paulo wrote:
2013/04/13 16:01?Scott Long ??:
Maybe something else, but whatever it is, it should be done. If you and Gleb
don't want to do this, I will.
I already started writing a guide. See here for a very incomple
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Glen Barber wrote:
The problem is creating the gpart(8) partition scheme on the md(4)
device.
Below follows script(1) output of what the make-memstick.sh script does:
Script started on Sun Jun 9 00:41:08 2013
root@snap:/snap/releng # chroot /snap/releng/10-i386-snap
roo
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, O. Hartmann wrote:
Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with
"gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as
Geom name: ada4
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 16
fwsectors: 63
last: 1953525167
first: 63
entries: 4
scheme: MBR
Consumers:
1. Name
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Genre Roger wrote:
When I refer to gpart(8) manpage (9.1 release, updated jan 25,2013), I find
the description of partition types a bit confusing.
Considering the case of a MoBo with "old way" Bios (non UEFI), the only
scheme allowed to get a bootable system is MBR. (Note
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote:
On 04/20/2011 15:18, Scott Long wrote:
I agree with what Alexander is saying, but I'd like to take it a step
further. We should all be using [...] mount-by-label
+1
When I first saw this on linux my gut reaction was "e, different." But
now that I
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote:
On 04/20/2011 16:01, Warren Block wrote:
Not sure I understand the question. I have a little article called
FreeBSD Labeled Filesystems:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html
That's a good article, but it highlights what seem to be
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
glabel create /dev/
Just tested that with a kernel from HEAD and a 8.x userland. This does
not seem to survive a reboot.
No, "create" make
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
It will be ada0 rather than ad4. With adaX the weird ATA_STATIC_ID stuff is
gone and ATA disks are now numbered starting from 0 just like SCSI disks use
da0, da1, ... etc.
--
John Baldwin
Thanks, John. I was afraid that was the answer. Now, II'm r
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would
prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really helpful,
especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like
sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 25/07/2011 07:47 Warren Block said the following:
2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is highlighted leads
the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it will really
create another partition. Delete o
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I think this behavior (already in several Linux distros) is really far more
intuitive that the old FreeBSD version, but it is a bit disconcerting at
first. It really does not take much to get used to and I think anyone who
is either new to Unix or familia
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Michal Varga wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 16:24 -0700, 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
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Jason Campbell wrote:
Downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img and verified the image
with md5sum. I wrote the image (from Linux):
dd if=FreeBSD.img of=/dev/sde bs=512
Rebooted and get "gptboot: Invalid backup GPT header"
Same here, although it ran normally. The e
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 ?
We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades!
Or just don't use a backup partition? Maybe dd conv=
(Sorry, lost track of quoting)
The style is okay, but I would suggest rearranging the order to
demphasize the DVD with its quickly-obsolete packages. Media type is
very important and should probably be mentioned first.
FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso- CD: Installer, FreeBSD OS
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