[solved] Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-12-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Linux I switched from GRUB legacy to GRUB 2. To transform menu.lst into grub.cfg: SYNOPSIS grub-menulst2cfg [INFILE [OUTFILE]] To boot FreeBSD: menuentry FreeBSD{ set root=(hd0,msdos1) chainloader +1 } ___ freebsd-questions

getpwnam_r returns EINVAL on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-12-03 Thread Dan Lists
After upgrading a server from FreeBSD 7.3 to FreeBSD 8.3 I noticed this bug. Since upgrading, getpwnam_r is acting inconsistently. If I look up a user that does not exist and the name is 16 characters or less, getpwnam_r returns 0 and the result is NULL. If the name is more than 16 characters

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it: spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-30 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? Anything else I can try? I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do they differ, similar as different Linux distros can differ? Regards, Ralf

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
install FreeBSD? I tried a few experiments just now, and it still looks to me like the EBR is the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know how to work around it. Certainly it should be possible to do this. It's a matter of getting the partitioning tools to do it. Anything else I can try

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
you, so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? Anything else I can try? I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do they differ, similar as different Linux distros can differ? PC-BSD is FreeBSD

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
on that. Because of the extended partitions, maybe. Thank you, so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? Anything else I can try? I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do

Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it: spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
ask on a Linux mailing list what to do. There's still the multi-boot issue. How to boot FreeBSD and Linux. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
dmesg | tail or so It's trying to mount the whole slice rather than individual FreeBSD partitions inside that slice. I don't know how--or if--Linux has a way to refer to those partitions. The FreeBSD notation would be ada0s1a, ada0s1b (swap), ada0s1d, ada0s1e. c refers to the whole disk

Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]

2012-11-28 Thread Carl Johnson
default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it: spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub. The following is a chainloader rule

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-- 7 spinymouse spinymouse4096 Nov 15 18:50 Spinymouse So how can I mount e.g. an USB stick? And could I then run something similar to # echo gpart show ada0s1 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # gpart show ada0s1 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # echo gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 /path/to/usbstick

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
/path/to/usbstick/logfile # echo gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # echo gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 /path/to/usbstick/logfile oops, but I guess you know what I mean etc.? I would like to post the output to the list. TIA Ralf

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Warren Block
somewhere, but a quick look didn't find it, so: # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt That assumes there is a FAT filesystem in the first partition of the memory stick, a common setup. Please don't use NTFS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 27 November 2012 15:15:52 Ralf Mardorf wrote: And could I then run something similar to # echo gpart show ada0s1 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # gpart show ada0s1 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # echo gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 /path/to/usbstick/logfile # echo gpart add -t

Re: [Bulk] Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
:) I use USB sticks as they are, with FAT, if I e.g. need Linux permissions, I use an archive on the USB stick. Yes, I'll edit the logfile, before posting. Indeed script /tmp/session.log is better, than my stupid idea. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd

Re: [Bulk] Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
- free - (2.5M) # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 ada0s1 added Now it becomes complicated, since the log is a mess: = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274622 1 freebsd (57G) 121274685 61- free - (30k) 121274746 503862599 2 ebr [active

Re: [Bulk] Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: In Linux the result does look like this: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep BSD /dev/sda1 63 12127468460637311 a5 FreeBSD $ sudo parted -l | grep pri 1 32.3kB 62.1GB 62.1GB primary ext3 1 32.3kB 22.0GB 22.0GB primary ext4

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
George == George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.com writes: George I'll second that. I have a smaller and a larger VPS at ARP, they've George been great. And I've been running 5 FreeBSD servers of various sizes there for something like two years (or has it been three?). All booting from ZFS

Re: [Bulk] Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is from the log: # gpart show ada0 = 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683- free - (57G) 121274746 503862599 2 ebr [active] (240G) 625137345 5103- free - (2.5M) # gpart add -t freebsd -i1

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1 gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists Sorry, no idea on that. Because of the extended partitions, maybe. Thank you, so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? Anything else I can

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Jeremy Johnston
Hello, We at SmartServ Hosting, http://www.smart-serv.net/, have been offering VPS containers supporting FreeBSD for over a year and previously ran all our services from FreeBSD on bare metal before moving into our virtualization environment where we continue to use FreeBSD for our core

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Shane Ambler
On 26/11/2012 20:48, Arthur Chance wrote: FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by Colin) as well as Colin's defenestrated FreeBSD AMIs. I don't use them yet but while looking into cloud setups I found that rackspace have offered freebsd 9 images for us to build

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I use the amd64 install DVD. With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy to /dev/sda, the boot flag

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
should know better. You can find details on how to use the CLI tools in Warren's article. When startup finished I push enter Install keyboard: German ISO-8859-1 hostname: freebsd [*] doc, games, lib32, ports, src Guided Partitioning Select the disk on which to install FreeBSD: ada0

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
the installer and simply try, what I've written here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246767.html I'll wait a few minutes, perhaps you read it and say if this is ok. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? No. The freebsd-update program can only

Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh)

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
. Maybe someone can enlighten me on that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh)

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
I'll shut down Linux and restart the installer and simply try, what I've written here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246767.html I'll wait a few minutes, perhaps you read it and say if this is ok. No, it confuses GPT and MBR issues. I thought bsdinstall would

VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Jim Flowers
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. Now, however, it looks like

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2 and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1. On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Assuming the first slice has been deleted. Correct. # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0 Create a FreeBSD disklabel/bsdlabel

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity

2012-11-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Polytropon
needs just / is needed, so I guess # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 512m da0s1 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k da0s1 is what I should run?! 512m (it doesn't matter to use m or M?) is enough swap? If you have sufficient disk space, going for about 2 GB swap won't

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I can't backup the whole HDDs :(. I backup some data from HDD1 to HDD2 and te other data from HDD2 to HDD1. On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:43 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Assuming the first slice has been deleted. Correct. # gpart add -t freebsd -i1 ada0

serial console issues with FreeBSD 9.0 (i386)

2012-11-25 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello While installing FreeBSD 9.0 i386 on a Soekris net6501 I ran into some problems regarding the serial console. Those problems and their workarounds are described below -- for the archives, in case someone runs into them as well. After having read section 27.6 Setting Up the Serial Console

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25/11/2012 21:08, Jim Flowers wrote: Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? What part of the world are you in? In the US there's RootBSD; in Europe there are a few

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Sierchio
Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI with you, but you should try

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
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Re: Should newfs include -S 4096? was Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
MBR mirror/gm0 # ignore mirror/gm0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes after add gpart add -t freebsd -a 4k mirror/gm0 # create the bsdlabel partitions in slice 1 (s1) gpart create -s BSD mirror/gm0s1 I would see that the old gm0s1a and gm0s1b had reappeared, even though I had

Multi-boot Linux + FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, as a long time Linux user I'll test FreeBSD, because I've got issues with my sound card on Linux. I'm already subscribed to FreeBSD multimedia. Perhaps later today I'll install 9.0 amd64. If possible I'll keep my Linux GRUB legacy. Can I use my menu.lst [1] and add a chainloader or something

Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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Re: Multi-boot Linux + FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi Ralf, On 2012.11.24 17:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Perhaps later today I'll install 9.0 amd64. If possible I'll keep my Linux GRUB legacy. Can I use my menu.lst [1] and add a chainloader or something similar to boot FreeBSD from /dev/sda1? I don't know if GRUB v1 allows that, on a multiboot

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
and qualified it myself for the purpose I intend to use it. I wouldn't blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds. As far as FreeBSD release engineering goes, I believe all -RELEASE versions are aimed at maximum

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
the years. But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just fine. For example, will my make.conf settings be properly observed by the new tool

Re: RME audio card user new to FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Juergen Lock
there'll be many changes from RC3 to release, and you can use freebsd-update to get to -release after it's out anyway. (I think you can also back it up, but make sure you don't restore the slice table in the mbr too if you add the bsd slice from bsdinstall, only the actual bootcode.) I backup

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
making the jump. But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just fine. For example, will my make.conf settings be properly observed

Re: Multi-boot Linux + FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Damien Fleuriot
install 9.0 amd64. If possible I'll keep my Linux GRUB legacy. Can I use my menu.lst [1] and add a chainloader or something similar to boot FreeBSD from /dev/sda1? I don't know if GRUB v1 allows that, on a multiboot system I use GRUB 2 to either load FreeBSD's loader(8) : menuentry FreeBSD

Re: Multi-boot Linux + FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Damien, Lucas and Juergen :) btw. the off topic on multimedia is my bad, I wasn't subscribed to FreeBSD questions. While reading howtos I missed http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html#grub-loader I'll add title FreeBSD 9.0 root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader to my

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/11/2012 16:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. 9-STABLE works for me. I've run into a few quite

How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I use the amd64 install DVD. With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy to /dev/sda, the boot flag will be set for the extended partition. /dev/sda1 is an empty ext3 partition, size 57.83 GiB. Regards

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:14:40 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I use the amd64 install DVD. With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. You mention ada0s1. This is not a partition. It's called a slice (different term: DOS primary partition

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 23:35 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 12127468460637311 83 Linux This is the partition you're going to install FreeBSD to? Good, just delete it and let the installer do the work

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
misconfigured or did I miss something I should take care off? I don't have such issues with other mailing lists. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Polytropon
FreeBSD to? Good, just delete it and let the installer do the work. :-) Yes, but the install doesn't do it! I can delete it now, instead of trying to delete it with the installer and see if the installer will work then. That sounds good. The installer should be able to detect the free space

OT: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
was able to pull off a feat like this for only one time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
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Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Shane Ambler
On 25/11/2012 04:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote: But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just fine. For example, will my make.conf

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
tends to make this more tractable to control. Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/24/2012 06:16 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 25/11/2012 04:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote: But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
. The MD5sum for the ISO was ok and the burned DVD was verified. I did not test Shell until now and it's to late to search and read a howto. When startup finished I push enter Install keyboard: German ISO-8859-1 hostname: freebsd [*] doc, games, lib32, ports, src Guided Partitioning Select

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
regarding to this kind of partitioning, I just prefer to test the ncurses way first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
front. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Eric S Pulley
doing what yours is. I used freebsd-update and it did all the right things no problems. Been running on 9 without any issues pretty much since it came out. However, the only thing remotely fancy I'm doing is running root ZFS and link aggregation on my NIC's

Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I use the amd64 install DVD. With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy to /dev/sda, the boot flag will be set for the extended partition. /dev/sda1 is an empty

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie
-in wireless NICs. The service command is really helpful. I frequently can't remember which service is in etc and which in /usr/local/etc. The largest problem I encountered in the upgrade was the disk structure. My disks were setup when using FreeBSD 3.5/3.7. As a result, the root partition

Should newfs include -S 4096? was Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-23 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 21:10, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2

OT: has Black Friday ever been tried at FreeBSD ?

2012-11-23 Thread jb
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Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
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Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
Thank you very much for your work on this. I have found this conversation and your article very informative. I've already installed W7 on my SSD but I let the installation program create the windows (MBR) partition. I'm going to install FreeBSD 9.1 as soon as it is ready so I want to ask

Re: Build a Distro using FreeBSD?

2012-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/11/2012 18:20, Ron Blake wrote: I wanna make a distro but linux is too buggy for me so i thought about FreeBSD how do i go about building my own distro? Also are we allowed to make custom distros using FreeBSD please get back to me with info on building a custom distro using FreeBSD

Re: Build a Distro using FreeBSD?

2012-11-22 Thread Devin Teske
On Nov 22, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 22/11/2012 18:20, Ron Blake wrote: I wanna make a distro but linux is too buggy for me so i thought about FreeBSD how do i go about building my own distro? Also are we allowed to make custom distros using FreeBSD please get back to me

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Shane Ambler
On 22/11/2012 14:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a slice (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels cannot be used in an MBR. Fixed below

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Shane Ambler wrote: On 22/11/2012 14:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a slice (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT

gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Arthur Chance
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Re: gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
/freebsd-doc/2012-June/020060.html Help would be greatly appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
': No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2? Sorry, typo. FreeBSD does not have to be the first slice. # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s2 Hm, still doesn't work. Look: # gpart destroy -F ada2 ada2 destroyed # gpart

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a slice (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels cannot be used in an MBR. Fixed below. I will probably add this to my disk

SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread bsd
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Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
(it's my goto VCS) I don't think it would be a good choice for FreeBSD. We're not a small project - we have people who are willing to devote time to things like an external wiki and isse tracker. Nuts, we have (had?) repos in four different VCSs! Those features in fossil are purposely kept simple

Re: PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook

2012-11-20 Thread RW
,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 124.170.51.116 -- 203.215.7.251 netmask 0x Incidentally the PPPoA section of the FreeBSD is very out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html The ambiguously named net/pppoa port in section

Tuning modern (i.e. 9.x) FreeBSD Systems for 'servers' - any guides?

2012-11-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
for this stuff, which appears to be all very out of date. Does anyone have any links for 'modern' tuning guides - or is it simply not necessary with newer FreeBSD versions? (e.g. 9.x upwards) e.g. if the machine is amd64 w/6-8Gb of RAM - running GENERIC. The servers typically handle lots of TCP

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Nelson
as an option, think of it as a requirement. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread peter weismann
I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. But since some time, I had installed www/opera-devel and www/opera at the same time and played with them. Now I see, that opera has a greater release-level then opera-devel. That makes no sense

boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T) 3907029105 62 - free - (31k) = 0 3907028979 mirror/gm0s1 BSD (1.8T) 0 2- free - (1.0k) 216777216 1 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777218

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 November 2012 13:23, peter weismann p...@weispit.eu wrote: I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. But since some time, I had installed www/opera-devel and www/opera at the same time and played with them. Now I see

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update to migrate from 9.0 to 9.1, via: freebsd-update upgrade

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-20 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
sentence is totally wrong. Fossil has really nice features that could nicely fits with FreeBSD workflows and greatly improves it. It has most of the new shiny feature everyone can expect from a dvcs, but it also has it drawbacks: The converted repositories (I did convert docs, src and ports

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Shane Ambler
backup server the time saved in performance is only going to impact a few times a day and will be outweighed by the network speed. The cost of the SSD drives could add more drives to increase space or redundancy - RAIDZ3 ? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Paul
in order to install FreeBSD. I also the USB thumbdrive installer to load the OS. After that I used the USB ethernet to load papckages. Once I had the OS installed, I switched to using a bluetooth keyboard. It's less clunky without the extra wires. Note that this was intended to be Intel's developer

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-19 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
.2FTechnicalDetails.How_do_Mercurial_hashes_get_calculated.3F :%s/BSD/LGP/ http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-19 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
/COPYING#l3 In their repository , it is GPL v2 . Is there any other place which specifies its license as BSDL ? Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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