miniBSD vs 6.2-STABLE

2007-06-25 Thread Morgan Reed
I now have my target PXE booting from my FreeBSD host (chalk one up to not writing config files at ungodly hours of the night, thanks to Danny for spotting the error.) The boot is proceeding to the boot menu but after this the kernel freezes; With acpi.ko in the image the acpi module loads, the

Re: miniBSD vs 6.2-STABLE

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Proto
Morgan Reed wrote: I now have my target PXE booting from my FreeBSD host (chalk one up to not writing config files at ungodly hours of the night, thanks to Danny for spotting the error.) The boot is proceeding to the boot menu but after this the kernel freezes; With acpi.ko in the image the

MP-Safe quotas for RELENG_6

2007-06-25 Thread Kostik Belousov
Hello, I backported the MP-Safe quotas patch for RELENG_6. Besides what the title said, it includes several fixes for quotas operation. I would commit the patch based on the users feedback, assuming the re@ would not object. Please, test it.

dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
Some background; I'm using a 160GB USB harddisk to write dumps to. This disk is encrypted with GEOM_ELI; umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: WDC WD25 00JB-00REA0 20.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0:

RE: PXE booting issues

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew X. Economou
Morgan, I had much better luck using PXELINUX to chain-load FreeBSD. I wrote up an article on the subject (http://web.irtnog.org/doc/how-to/freebsd-install-pxe-wds), but the corresponding blog entry might make for a shorter read

acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR on mac pro

2007-06-25 Thread George Hartzell
I have -STABLE (amd64) running on an 8-way Mac Pro system. It's all working great except I get the following message on the console every couple of seconds. acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR 0x10 I've (google...) found one comment about Freebsd and the Mac Pro that includes this message in it's

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre, too. I never had problems with dump/restore. My disk also failed recently with very similer messages. Hiro On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:40:45 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL