Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jim Flowers wrote: I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 On booting it hangs at: F1FreeBSD Boot:

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 On booting it hangs at: F1FreeBSD Boot: F1 I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Any help on direction to solve this? try fdisk -B /dev/ad0 but even better next time don't make slices, only disklabel. It just make life simpler. I still don't understand why sysinstall by default create them. It should be only used when windoze

Re: is RTL8139 THAT bad?

2009-06-23 Thread peterjeremy
On 2009-Jun-22 13:12:08 +0200, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i know all this, but i'm asking why processing single interrupt takes 4 CPU cycles. All I can suggest is that you browse the sources and see what the rl(4) interrupt handler does. If you want to dig

Re: is RTL8139 THAT bad?

2009-06-23 Thread EforeZZ
i have pentium 200 with that card. doing ftp from other machine, getting 3.5MB/s (HDD can 10MB/s, DMA) having 45%-55% interrupt load. I had the same probelm. I rebuilt the kernel with the POLLING option set to ON and turned on polling for all network interfaces. It helped much :) Best regards,

Re: Maybe confused about AMD64 / i386 compatibility

2009-06-23 Thread Joe Greco
On 2009-Jun-13 15:55:29 -0500, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Adding a SIL3112A gives us the SATA. These are known to cause data corruption (check the archives). I wouldn't trust anything that has passed through a SIL chip without independent validation. Well, as I originally stated,

Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-23 Thread Nirmal Thacker
Hello This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on February '07 by Peter Jeremy [ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html] and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring FreeBSD (and contributing) by

[FIXED] Re: Porting problem with gnu configure (c++ -V)

2009-06-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:06:18PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I'm converting my port samesame to use gnu configue, but came a cross a problem that is beond me. I'm able to run aclocal, autoconf, autoheader and automake --add-missing -c. I've read the docs for autoconf and automake and

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello : :This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on :February '07 by Peter Jeremy [ :http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html] :and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring :FreeBSD (and

Re: ZFS filesystem not showing total size?

2009-06-23 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-06-23 17:47:26, Marcus Reid wrote: Hi, As a side note, freebsd-hackers is not the correct list for this question. I considered it a hackers@ question due to the large ZFS is an experimental feature warning. xw ___