Custom installer woes (can't mount / RW)

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I'm trying to create a custom installer for FreeBSD to automatically setup our systems, however I am having a very odd problem. The general idea is that I build a release, then create a chroot in which I install the slab of required ports for our system. I then tar that up and format a USB

Re: Custom installer woes (can't mount / RW)

2011-09-01 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, Does it make a difference if you change this line in your script: echo '/dev/gpt/swap / swapsw 0 0' ${TMPDIR}/mnt/etc/fstab to: echo '/dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0' ${TMPDIR}/mnt/etc/fstab Mounting of the root file system /

/home and /usr/home not created by bsdinstall

2011-09-01 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
Hi, when installing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and choosing the auto partition layout (Guided - Entire Disk - Exit - Save) with no seperate /usr/home partition and adding no user accounts to the system (Would you like to add users to the installed system now - No) neither the /usr/home directory nor the

Re: /home and /usr/home not created by bsdinstall

2011-09-01 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:08:59 +0200, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: Hi, when installing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and choosing the auto partition layout (Guided - Entire Disk - Exit - Save) with no seperate /usr/home partition and adding no user accounts to the system (Would you like to add users to the

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-09-01 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:38 +0200 Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: ... and here I am again with SU+J on my box ;-) Tomorrow, I will perform this step on all servers. I guess it's a worth having. Most definitely. When rebooting after a forced power-down (due to that darned

Re: /home and /usr/home not created by bsdinstall

2011-09-01 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:45:17 +0200 Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: this was already reported and will be fixed in BETA2. The cause was a bug in pw(8). Ah okay, I didn't know that. Sorry for the noise :) -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yam...@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-09-01 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 2011-08-31 20:02, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/31/11 19:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I try to find a suitable reading/howto for how to enable softupdates on UFS2 filesystems. Agreed. Added to

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-09-01 Thread Edgar Martinez
re: device atpic yup, I added that manually in the older stuff, but its getting added by default in 9 build as part of the default stuff meow. re: device.hints in /boot ? neg, I will try that right nao. -Original Message- From: adrian.ch...@gmail.com [mailto:adrian.ch...@gmail.com] On

RE: No valid timers found on ALIX (was Re: 9.0-BETA2 - Kernel Panic on ALIX)

2011-09-01 Thread Edgar Martinez
I was missing the hints..problem solved..thanks! -Original Message- From: adrian.ch...@gmail.com [mailto:adrian.ch...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:26 PM To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Edgar Martinez; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No valid timers

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-09-01 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Niclas Zeising wrote: Can you please detail a little more the steps you took to enable SU+J and your experience with it? It sounds like a good start for a howto or an inclusion in the handbook. It's really simple... You need a kernel compiled with options SOFTUPDATES #

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-09-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 08/31/11 20:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: The list would be way too long. I know other Linux-based groups that have integrated drivers from FreeBSD as well for proprietary work. Thanks, -Garrett And claimed then

Followup re: nvidia-driver linux patch (was: recent commit causes lock up)

2011-09-01 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Just thought I'd give a heads up re: the nvidia_linux.c patch and the latest version of nvidia-driver. I upgraded to the new nvidia-driver-280.13 just now and had to remove the patch file. It broke the build with a wrong number of arguments to fget error. After removing the patch, the build

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-09-01 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 09/01/11 13:26, Ian FREISLICH wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: Can you please detail a little more the steps you took to enable SU+J and your experience with it? It sounds like a good start for a howto or an inclusion in the handbook. It's really simple... You need a kernel compiled with

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-09-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 08/31/11 20:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: The list would be way too long. I know other Linux-based groups that have integrated drivers from

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
Advocacy by the project members is not going to be taken as seriously as an independent third party comparison. It's clear to me that the project should stick to improving it's own feature set and leave these sorts of things to others. Otherwise we're straying into Fanboy territory which aint

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
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! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote: Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? They aren't exclusive. Anything which doesn't understand GPT should fall back to the 'protective' MBR kept inside the GPT format... Regards, -- -Chuck

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 Garrett Cooper
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=sync would help? Thanks, -Garrett

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 4:35 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: 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

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Warren Block
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

Re: howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

2011-09-01 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, O.. You wrote 1 сентября 2011 г., 20:06:21: Once done, you can force on a non-important, big filesystem a crash. I switched of one of my server boxes with a 3 TB harddrive for test purposes and was amazed how fast, compared to unjournaled UFS2, the fsck now is performed. Since *BSDs

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Artem Belevich
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 2, 2011 4:35 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: 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

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

2011-09-01 Thread Sebastian Chmielewski
hi, I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT r224522M installed on ZFS Root and GPT partitions and this setup is running fine. Today I've updated to r225312 and after rebooting I've got following error message from boot loader: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable Then I did zfs rollback using

[PATCH] Fix NKPT kernel config option

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi John, Thanks for adding an NKPT kernel config option (r225194), but this doesn't seem to work unless opt_pmap.h is included, see attached patch. Without this include, there's no garantee that the NKPT definition code: #ifndef NKPT #define NKPT32 #endif will use the value

Re: [PATCH] Fix NKPT kernel config option

2011-09-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, September 01, 2011 3:46:43 pm Robert Millan wrote: Hi John, Thanks for adding an NKPT kernel config option (r225194), but this doesn't seem to work unless opt_pmap.h is included, see attached patch. Without this include, there's no garantee that the NKPT definition code:

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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 gptboot just ignore backup GPT data, but

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: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 7:59 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: 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

Kernel panic at boot after an upgrade from 9.0-BETA1 to 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-01 Thread Piotr Kubaj
I've upgraded today to beta 2 (with the newest sources atm). The procedure was as described in the handbook: make buildworld -j3; make buildkernel -j3 KERNCONF=MYKERNEL; make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL (the kernel I used was the same as for beta 1, for which it worked flawlessly); reboot

Re: Custom installer woes (can't mount / RW)

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01/09/2011, at 18:17, Craig Rodrigues wrote: Does it make a difference if you change this line in your script: echo '/dev/gpt/swap / swapsw 0 0' ${TMPDIR}/mnt/etc/fstab to: echo '/dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0'

Re: buildworld failure r223619 to 225128

2011-09-01 Thread Beach Geek
On 8/27/11, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried moving aside your existing /usr/src and checking it out afresh? On Aug 28, 2011 12:47 AM, Beach Geek labeachg...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/25/11, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2011-08-25 17:12, Beach Geek wrote: make

Re: Kernel panic at boot after an upgrade from 9.0-BETA1 to 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Piotr Kubaj freebsd.current.l...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded today to beta 2 (with the newest sources atm). The procedure was as described in the handbook: make buildworld -j3; make buildkernel -j3 KERNCONF=MYKERNEL; make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL (the

Re: newnfs user setup

2011-09-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2011, Rick Macklem wrote: ...  http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/dtrace.patch Hmm. Is it just me? Trying to test the patch I get: (fs)(root) patch -C dtrace.patch Hmm... I can't seem to find a

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

2011-09-01 Thread Sebastian Chmielewski
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 22:36:46 +0200 Sebastian Chmielewski chmi...@o2.pl wrote: after rebooting I've got following error message from boot loader: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable I'm very puzzled with this, in theory 'make installkernel' shouldn't break boot process at this stage

Re: newnfs user setup

2011-09-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2011, Rick Macklem wrote: ...  http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/dtrace.patch Hmm. Is it just me? Trying to test the