Re: S/390 port status

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Go! Go! Go! s390 is the only other truly interesting architecture besides i386. Poul-Henning In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Serguei Tzukanov" writes: >Reaches mount root prompt in emulator. > >More info is on http://tzukanov.narod.ru/freebsd390/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Danny Braniss
> As far as I know, Grub is one of the best bootloaders around. It supports > IBM JFS (OS/2 and Linux version), ReiserFS, Ext3, Ext2FS, and UFS. > it does not do PXE. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Chan Tur Wei writes: > So unless someone specifically sets the active partition, the 1st FreeBSD > one, usually -stable, will get loaded. Since boot1+boot2 is loaded by the > partition boot boot0, or the standard DOS boot (or, even MS's multi boot > selector), the above may cause the 2nd Fre

S/390 port status

2002-07-01 Thread Serguei Tzukanov
Reaches mount root prompt in emulator. More info is on http://tzukanov.narod.ru/freebsd390/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward.

2002-07-01 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
What form are you using for the drive in the BIOS--LBA or Large? Trying forcing it to Large (sometime "LG") write down the geometry determined by the BIOS, and enter it with fdisk using during the install. This should work. :) jmc On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 18:25, Lucky Green wrote: > Fifty bucks

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Chan Tur Wei writes: > > I'm not sure how booting with lilo will work (never played with it). > > Instead, I dug around a bit previously, and I found that boot1.s reads: > # > # If we are on a hard drive, then load the MBR and look for the first > # FreeBSD slice. We use the fake partit

FreeBSD problem: $50 reward.

2002-07-01 Thread Lucky Green
Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many times befor

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Chan Tur Wei
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:13:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dual booting current/stable on x86? > > > Cyrille Lefevre writes: > > On Sun, Jun 3

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Hiten Pandya
: x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub : understand reiserfs? --- Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you > too. As far as I know, Grub is one of the best bootloaders around. It supports IBM JFS

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:05 PM -0400 7/1/02, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >Why so many applications go to the trouble to disable Nagle's >algorithm is beyond me. I suspect the socket option has too >seductive of a name. I suspect someone had a specific case where Nagle's algorithm causes a real problem. They turn on

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kip Macy writes: > > > > > > > x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub > > understand reiserfs? > > Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you too. Lilo is what initially terrified me.. ;-) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 03:34 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. Your > anecdotal experience with "works better" is just that -- anecdotal. > It doesn't hold for the general case. > > I guess the problem is that the patches are not committed to the > v

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Kip Macy
> > > x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub > understand reiserfs? Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you too. -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Doug Barton wrote: > > Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. > > Dillon's patches were committed, by Dillon. :) My systems still work > better with newreno off than with it on. > > > Your anecdotal experience with "works better" is just that -- anecdotal. > > It doesn't hold

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > > I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and > > > Matt Dillon posted patches? > > > > Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about > > reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's br

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Doug Barton wrote: > > I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and > > Matt Dillon posted patches? > > Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about > reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now, and in my > experience, turning it off make

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Cyrille Lefevre writes: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the > > same IDE disk? (and linux too.) > > > > When I tell lilo to boot "hde3", I get the -stable boot2 and > > /boot/load

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> > Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both > -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. > > I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very > good test-bed for this issue. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch

2002-07-01 Thread Vince Valenti
Hello, I have a machine running 4.6-RELEASE-p1 and it is panicing every day or so... It had the same problem on 4.4-RELEASE and 4.5-RELEASE. Does anybody have any ideas what might be causing this? It is a Dell PowerEdge 6350 with a PERC2/QC RAID controller and 1GB of memory. The server also h

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Guys, guys... Take 'er easy. > > All I asked is what it is, what it does, and the ramifications. Thank you > both for enlightening me. Really. No sarcasm. I actually wasn't being sarcastic... You've wandered into a briar patch of long standing though,

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sierchio writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both >> -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. >> >> I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavela

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 01:50 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us > > > > who have observed the situation in the real wor

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both > -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. > > I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very > good test-bed for this issue. Wireless breaks a

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Barton writ es: >On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Mike Silbersack wrote: >> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: >> > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us >> > > who have observed the situation in the real wo

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us > > > who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even > > > on a homogenous network (a

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the > same IDE disk? (and linux too.) > > When I tell lilo to boot "hde3", I get the -stable boot2 and > /boot/loader from "hde2" (ad4s2a). I can then monkey ar

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Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us > > who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even > > on a homogenous network (all with newreno enabled) performance is still > > wo

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > I'm guessing that the suggestion to turn it off (the original thread) is > > valid enough, as all machines referred to were on the same network, else > > why wouldn't the above still hold true? Or is it a matter of FTP and/or >

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > I'm guessing that the suggestion to turn it off (the original thread) is > valid enough, as all machines referred to were on the same network, else > why wouldn't the above still hold true? Or is it a matter of FTP and/or > SMTP (specifically, sendmail) not playing nice wit

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > If you turn it off, you rat all your firends out in the Prisoner's > > Dilemma. > > > > Congestion control protocols only work if everyone participates. > > > >All "Reno TCP" implementations include TCP Fast Retransmit and Fast > >Recovery algorithms [RFC2581]... >

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 09:56 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: > > D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf > > > on my machines: > > > > > > net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 > > > > Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, > > and

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf > > on my machines: > > > > net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 > > Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, > and what the ramifications of turning it off are? > > I'm running

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 12:00 , D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using > it, > and what the ramifications of turning it off are? http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+new+reno To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Len Conrad wrote: >> >> Sorry, hackers, I posted this twice in -questions and got no response. >> >> If the problem is newreno, can somebody say how to up just that piece for >> 4.4 so as to be as non-disruptive, non-dice-rollin

Re: AS99127F Hardware Monitor

2002-07-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
The ASUS A7N266-E motherboard has the nVidia 420D chipset. Of course, ASUS and nVidia will not provide datasheets... This is not a production machine... # uname -a FreeBSD asus 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 17 13:15:02 PDT 2002 \ root@asus:/usr/src/sys/compile/ASUS i386 I a

Strange linker messages on 4.5 buildworld

2002-07-01 Thread d_f0rce
Hi, cause of the resolver bug I cvsuped to RELENG_4_5 and wanted to rebuild world. Unfortunately I get some strange linker messages: cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -march=k6 -I. -I/usr/src/lib/libipsec -DIPSEC_DEBUG -DIPSEC -DINET6 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/l

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-07-01 Thread Don Lewis
On 30 Jun, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: >> > do you have 2 machines you can link together? >> >> Oh yes. But I know nothing about remote gdb. > > it's not that difficult.. > > have the source and

Re: Some small projects for mutt(1)

2002-07-01 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:18:38PM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > Interesting. How would you have a key bound sequence in mutt set off > the script on the message, though? For instance, if I do a "ctrl+B", how > would you ensure that the Right Thing happens, without modifying mutt > code?