Re: yet more TP 600E fun...

1999-08-13 Thread Tom Bartol
I see the same problem when trying to boot FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE (or there abouts) and later cdroms on my TP770. I can boot FreeBSD-2.2.8 and earlier FreeBSD-3.0-SNAP cdroms just fine. I think it has something to do with the new boot loader that went in just before 3.0-RELEASE. Tom On Fri, 13

Re: yet more TP 600E fun...

1999-08-13 Thread Tom Bartol
I'd be more than happy to do the pestering if some one could write down a detailed description of exactly how the TP's BIOS is non-compliant. I don't know enough about the boot process and BIOS to write such a description. Tom On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: I attempt to boot a CD

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Tom Bartol
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Donn Miller wrote: "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: I was under the impression that Polar Bears are native to the North Pole and penguins are from the South Pole. Really? What eats penguins then? Maybe walrus? Arctic Foxes. - Donn I doubt it. No

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Bartol writes: : IIRC it does update uptime properly after a suspend in 2.2.8 but does not : do so in 3.X and -current on my ThinkPad 770. define correctly. Eg, if I suspend for an hour it adds an hour? Warner

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Bartol writes: : I tried 3.0-current after this merge, suspend and resume worked fine on my : 770 with the exception of uptime. I can confirm that uptime, at least as reported by uptime(1), isn't increased

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:00:46AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote: btw, I completely agree with the need to have good pccard/pcmcia support. For the first time there was a real reason for me to ditch FreeBSD on an Intel platform box (my laptop)

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Tom Bartol
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that for loading the kernel

4GB of RAM?!

1999-02-02 Thread Tom Bartol
Hi all, Has anyone yet tried running -current on a Xeon with 4GB RAM installed? We're about to place an order for a Quad Xeon and would like to have 4GB of RAM installed if it is feasible and/or possible to make this work with -current. Thanks for the help, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os

1999-04-08 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Polstra wrote: I am not saying the dependencies are broken. I'm just lamenting the general problem that it's difficult to upgrade a port that depends on a lot of things. It's a general structural problem, and I don't know how to fix it. Say you've got a bunch

Re: port dependencies (was Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os)

1999-04-08 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Jacques Vidrine wrote: On 8 April 1999 at 12:24, John Polstra j...@polstra.com wrote: [snip] Say you've got a bunch of ports that all depend on the same shared library -- maybe libjpeg or libXpm. You've had them installed for a few months, and they all work fine.

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-21 Thread Tom Bartol
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Matthew Reimer wrote: Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than -stable! Matt Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular