Can't boot installer: integer divide fault

2001-04-30 Thread Gregory Bond
[Please CC me as I am a stable user and not on the -current list] I'm running stable on a box at home and wanted to check if the -current kernel fixed a problem with my CD-RW drive. So I downloaded the boot floppies from current.freebsd.org, the 20010419 snap (which John B. tells me installs OK

Re: Install kernel gets divide overflow

2001-04-25 Thread Gregory Bond
> Weird, I installed the April 19 snap here locally on a testbox without any > problems. Rgr, I'll try Apr 19th and send another note with some debug info if it is still dying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Install kernel gets divide overflow

2001-04-23 Thread Gregory Bond
[please CC replies; I'm not on the -current list] I'm trying to boot a -CURRENT kernel to confirm it really does fix a problem with my hardware (see kern/26046). I've tried a couple of snapshots from current.freeebsd.org between 1st the 15th April. None has booted. Each dies with an integer d

Re: cpp change breaks ipfw

2000-02-28 Thread Gregory Bond
I wrote: > when fed through an ANSI preprocessor (i.e. not "gcc -E" and not /usr/bin/cpp > on 3.x!). This also works if (e.g.) addr is defined on the command line. and of course I _meant_ to write "(i.e. "gcc -E" and not /usr/bin/cpp..." gcc -E _is_ an ANSI cpp. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: cpp change breaks ipfw

2000-02-28 Thread Gregory Bond
> #define addr 192.186.2.5 > #define mask 255.255.240.0 > > #define rule(ADDR,MASK) add pass tcp from ADDR ## : ## MASK to any 25 setup > rule(addr,mask) This is a well-known artifact of the ANSI C rules. You need to do two levels of macro in order to get the macro args expanded in the paste o

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-31 Thread Gregory Bond
> I seem to remember there once was a comment in a well-known body of code, > which > went something like: > "You are not supposed to understand this." It was (IIRC) the process switching magic at the heart of fork() in V7 (and earlier, I assume). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd

WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ]

1999-01-26 Thread Gregory Bond
Well stone the bloody crows. System: HP Kayak XA 440BX M/b, P-II, Quantum Fireball ex4.3a For months I've been running with no flags on either wdc0 or wd0. Having followed the recent discussions about DMA mode etc I looked at LINT and added "flags 0xa0ff" to wd0. Rebuilt the system using the lat

Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard

1999-01-26 Thread Gregory Bond
I've just done my first CVSup since the 3-Stable split, using RELENG_3. This was after Matt D. committed a couple of VM fixes back to the 3-S branch. I have also enabled 32-bit DMA on my drive at the same time (amazing what you can learn from reading LINT - and read speed went from 3Mb/s to 12Mb/s

Re: keymaps

1999-01-24 Thread Gregory Bond
> What's wrong with us.unix.kbd? This also swaps a bunch of other things - Grave<->Esc, BS<->Del, etc. It was more confusing, so I made a new keymap. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: keymaps

1999-01-21 Thread Gregory Bond
my vote: A version of the standard keymap with CapsLock and LeftCtl functions swapped so the control key is under my left finger like God intended! Greg, home of us.iso-lock-ctl.kbd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

some guidance on forked cvsup please

1999-01-20 Thread Gregory Bond
Now we've gone and got forked, can someone please give us examples of cvsup files for those that want to follow 4-current and those that want to follow 3-stable. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: vinum is always started at boot-time...

1999-01-17 Thread Gregory Bond
noticed this when it tried to create lotsa devices in a read-only /dev at boot time. Patch: hellcat## diff -u rc.orig rc --- rc.orig Mon Jan 18 14:20:49 1999 +++ rc Mon Jan 18 14:20:59 1999 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ccdconfig -C fi -if [ -n $vinum_slices ]; then +if [ -n "$vinum_slices" ]