Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: My main idea is that the present Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5 is a very good menu . Instead of destroying its elegant structure , the already available FreeBSD Boot Loader ( actually Kernel selection ) menu

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels Eh? Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: set kernel=kernel.old boot IMHO, it shows that you can tell the loader about kernels. Having a kernel-choice sub-menu would be

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels Eh?  Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: set kernel=kernel.old boot IMHO, it shows that you can

MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread rank1seeker
I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then ~40 MB? I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when they are split I had to get rid of md1, to be able to boot with md0 as a root.

Re: MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then ~40 MB? I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when they are split

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2011-05-16 Thread Lionel Garth Jones
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Re: MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

2011-05-16 Thread Neel Natu
Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then ~40 MB? I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when they are

Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Mark Saad
All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the

Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Mark Saad
All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the kernel

Re: Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Sean Bruno
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 17:42 -0700, Mark Saad wrote: Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the | for 1-2 mins . Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner freebsd 7.3-release etc etc etc . This delay is about 1-2 mins as well. This looked like the memory check in my tests of