Re: How can I force boot from alternate drive with boot.config?

2010-02-08 Thread John Hay
. So I'm puzzled: If I have a two drive system with BSD loaded on both drives and the drives are configured with GPT partitions, how can I force the system to boot from the second drive using boot.config? I use: ad(0p3)/boot/loader John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j

Re: How can I force boot from alternate drive with boot.config?

2010-02-08 Thread John Hay
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:13:20PM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: I use: ad(0p3)/boot/loader So, more precisely, if I wanted to boot from drive 1, I'd use this? 1:ad(1p3)/boot/loader Yes, unless there are more bugs hiding. :-) I fixed a few in August last year. John -- John Hay -- j

Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT?

2009-08-17 Thread John Hay
set bootfs=pool/dataset John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: svn commit: r193635 - head/etc

2009-06-18 Thread John Hay
of -U a little. Only auto install if it is in mtree and has not changed. So if it has changed or is not in mtree, skip the auto install. John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Question about cvsup...

2007-11-18 Thread John Hay
in my config? (I run in with cvsup -l lockfile -g -L 1 ncvs-supfile) Maybe there is a umask difference between your interactive env and your cron env. I use this line in my cvsup config file to make sure the file permissions are the way I want them: *default umask=002 John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL

Re: ntpd and cmos clock update

2005-08-30 Thread John Hay
also like something like this, maybe with a switch to enable/ disable it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-13 Thread John Hay
of use of mergemaster, we would have a winner. IMVHO John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-05 Thread John Hay
mergemaster -r. Then go to single user mode and rename /etc.new to /etc and reboot. This still does have all the work, but it does minimize the downtime in single user mode. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-03 Thread John Hay
somewhere on disk for usage next time? Then the first run may still be slow, but following runs will be able to use it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread John Hay
the keyboards separately too, even if you have to recompile the kernel for that. One nice usage would be on HP's quad kiosk machine. It is a single processor box with 4 x screen, keyboard and mouse, and then 4 people can use it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread John Hay
be axed. Then if a developer comes with an API change, he must like it enough to do the work needed for it or motivate to the majority why a certain part have to be axed But then it is the group that decide and not him anymore. :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-23 Thread John Hay
password or whatever is needed to (re)start those services. The only place where I think the check might still be usefull, is on a general shell login box. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: [CFR] max-child-per-ip restriction for inetd

2002-06-16 Thread John Hay
) http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/FreeBSD/inetd-perip-4s.diff (for 4-STABLE) Both the patches needs a colon (:) after the s on the getopt() line, otherwise you just get a nasty coredump if you try to use the -s num commandline option. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards

2002-05-06 Thread John Hay
sure Julian could answer yes/no questions about the card speed setttings. Nothing as drastic as that. It is/was a bug and has been fixed: revision 1.100 date: 2002/04/14 23:18:40; author: brooks; state: Exp; lines: +15 -0 Fix tx-rate setting for Lucent cards. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL

microtime trustworthiness during booting?

2002-04-13 Thread John Hay
as timecounter. Can it be that there is some kind of glitch somewhere when the TSC take over as timecounter? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread John Hay
serial port have its own BAR, or are both inside one BAR and what the offset is where the ports start. You might be able to figure that out from the linux patch though. Once you figure those things out, you just add it to pucdata.c, build a kernel with the puc device and off you go. :-) John -- John

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread John Hay
.. mdtest# kldunload puc kldunload: can't unload file: Device not configured I never tried to make it into a module because I weren't sure what the interaction with the sio driver would be. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: arbitrary serial speeds

2002-02-28 Thread John Hay
Don't the stuff I committed to current do what you guys want? I'm planning to MFC it, but haven't asked Bruce yet. I'll need it before I MFC the puc driver. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had changes to do this BDE refused to commit them. On Thu, 28 Feb

Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread John Hay
it with flags in the kernel config file.) Also they don't say if they have changed the debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl from its default smallish 4096 bytes. Those 2 things can make a huge difference. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Support for Syba pci multi i/o card?

2000-12-06 Thread John Hay
for a few pci cards, but it looks like they are single serial port cards and not dual or quad. So how should I go about getting the sio probe and attach to do more than one serial port per pci card? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-06 Thread John Hay
a swapfile with vnconfig on -stable, but on -current I just get a device not configured error. Your patch work just fine on -current. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
nfs swap. What I have tried was: 10.1.2.3:/export/myclient/swap none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap 10.1.2.3:/export/myclient/swap none swap sw 10.1.2.3:/export/myclient/swap none nfs sw But each time I get this message: swapon: 10.1.2.3:/export/myclient/swap: No such file or directory John -- John Hay

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
John Hay writes: | the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not | enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and | supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. | | You don't need those; you can get them

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
FS ROOT according to the kernel's output. I had a look at the pxe code in /sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c where pxeboot is built from and in /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c which is the kernel side and it looks like they don't do anything about swap. There is a /* XXX set up swap? */ placeholder though. :-

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread John Hay
. In that case you have to add it to /sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.* or bite the bullet and new-busify it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
to allow it through. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
just define a collection or collections (if you want to break it up) for it and off you go. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-07 Thread John Hay
1Mbit/s link here. :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread John Hay
ke as much of FreeBSD's functionality work on there as possible. So far IPv6 has gotten no futher than OSI ever did. I think I was lucky to have mostly been screened from OSI, so I can't really compare them. IPv6 seem quitealive to me though. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubsc

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-08 Thread John Hay
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Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases

1999-10-20 Thread John Hay
? That's also pretty inelegant. I seem to remember someone producing some patches for this on bsdi a couple of years ago. I think somebody sent patches to do it a while back. I think it might be in GNATS. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: A bug in the sppp driver?

1999-09-30 Thread John Hay
an ifconfig to get started. That help them trough a lot of the states. Ifconfig will have the effect of giving an Up and then an Open event, which will take sppp from the Initial(0) state to Closed(2) and then to Req-Sent(6). John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: A bug in the sppp driver?

1999-09-29 Thread John Hay
e tried the solution in gnats 11238, but I'm not happy with it, because it stops sppp when loopback is detected, which is also not what I want. But appart from these and a few minor problems sppp is working just fine here. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Multiple routes to the same destination

1999-09-20 Thread John Hay
decrease in weight by NN. If there is any other route to the same destination with greater weight, the packets are sent that way instead. But can't gated do this? (Or any other routing daemon for that matter.) You don't need kernel support to do this. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread John Hay
. It would be nice if there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage.. the code is being readied

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread John Hay
. It would be nice if there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD. John -- John Hay -- john@mikom.csir.co.za FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage.. the code is being

Re: Advice on deriving accurate time values from the kernel?

1999-07-15 Thread John Hay
or even worse, so they are no good for that. John -- John Hay -- john@mikom.csir.co.za Hi, I am in the process of developing a device driver for the purpose of stepper motor control. The timing of each pulse is determined by external timing hardware on an I/O board, which will fire