Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-14 Thread Thomas Laus
> I've observed the slowness only on the local console, I haven't tested > the seriel console. Put the FreeBSD legcay installation usb stick into > the box, select it as boot device and watch the cursor spinning for > about 10 minutens until the kernel boots. Do the same with an UEFI >

UEFI + ZFS i5 Dmesg

2016-02-13 Thread Thomas Laus
It looks like my reply to the verbose dmesg.boot did not make it to the list. I was able to boot the PC from a MSDOS 6.22 floppy using a USB floppy drive. I also can load OpenBSD 5.8 on this PC and it boots normally. My verbose dmesg.boot: Table 'FACP' at 0xbf24f4b8 Table 'APIC' at 0xbf24f5c8

Is UEFI required for ZFS?

2016-02-12 Thread Thomas Laus
I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen Server. It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I would like to use ZFS on this new installation. The Xen Kernel does not have UEFI support at this time, so I installed FreeBSD CURRENT r295345

UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-12 Thread Thomas Laus
> I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen > Server. It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I > would like to use ZFS on this new installation. The Xen Kernel does not > have UEFI support at this time, so I installed FreeBSD CURRENT

Kernel Panic on vm_page_insert

2013-09-30 Thread Thomas Laus
This one is slightly different than the other item thread in this list. This panic occurred when my weekly cron job fired to svn up my STABLE system to r255294. I did not find a core file. The panic and reboot happened in the middle of the night and I just noticed it this morning when I went

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-23 Thread Thomas Laus
Related part of /var/run/dmesg.boot is re0: RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe000-0xe0f f mem 0xf7d04000-0xf7d04fff,0xf7d0-0xf7d03fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2 re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: Chip rev. 0x2c80 re0: MAC rev. 0x miibus0: MII bus

Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze

2013-09-20 Thread Thomas Laus
Tom, I have had multiple D510's and now D525's that are part of my test systems, all are 4GB machines and all run the latest (ie 2 days old) 9.X Stable. They're faultless. I have a D510 in production serving 30 users - yes its a 1G system running, sendmail, squid, samba as PDC. It's been

Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze

2013-09-20 Thread Thomas Laus
Gary Palmer [gpal...@freebsd.org] wrote: When building kernel world do you use the '-j' argument to do parallel builds? AFAIK thats not done by default, but it is for some ports. Gary: I just use the system defaults when building anything. If there is a '-j' argument passed to the

Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze

2013-09-20 Thread Thomas Laus
Gary Palmer [gpal...@freebsd.org] wrote: It's not a compiler flag, it's a make flag. make -j n will fork off up to n compilers to do the build. If you just do make buildworld then there is no parallel compilation. It used to be that ports had MAKE_JOBS_SAFE in the Makefile to mark that

Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze

2013-09-20 Thread Thomas Laus
Gary Palmer [gpal...@freebsd.org] wrote: It used to be that ports had MAKE_JOBS_SAFE in the Makefile to mark that the port could be built using parallel compiles with the '-j' argument to make. It appears that the logic has been switched and now you have to mark them as MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE to

FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze

2013-09-19 Thread Thomas Laus
I have an Intel Atom D510 motherboard that is being used in my home router for the last several years. It started on FreeBSD 8-Stable and was recently upgraded to FreeBSD 9-Stable. Through the years I have observed spurious reboots when rebuilding ports, but never world or kernel. I have

Re: Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

2013-09-05 Thread Thomas Laus
Hi, :-( Unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/cd0 Inappropriate ioctl for device. I encounter the same problem and reinstalling dvd+rw-tools-7.1 solved it. Henri Henri: Thank you for solving this problem for me. I removed and re-installed dvd+rw-tools-7.1 and this issue went away

Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer - Maybe ATA Related

2013-09-01 Thread Thomas Laus
I am only a casual user of CAM for DVD burning (once per release cycle of libburn). But i can analyse some of the relation between growisofs and the error messages. when a blank is inserted: Aug 30 11:04:41 shack kernel: (cd0:ata3:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Aug 30 11:04:41

Re: Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

2013-09-01 Thread Thomas Laus
Hi, :-( Unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/cd0 Inappropriate ioctl for device. Could someone else try to make a 'dump to DVD' backup [...] /sbin/dump -0u -L -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /u A test with less disk load would be to write e.g. 100 MB of zeros to e.g.

Re: Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

2013-08-31 Thread Thomas Laus
You probably need to recompile whatever application you're using to burn CDs. The actual program, cdrecord, works when invoked from the command line. The following script does not: EXAMPLES Dumps the /u file system to DVDs using growisofs. Uses a 16MB cache, creates a snapshot of

Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

2013-08-30 Thread Thomas Laus
I guess this one did not make it back from USENET to gateway I just tried to write to a DVD using both a PC running 9.2-RC3-p0 and 9.2-STABLE r255036 on different computers and get the following error on both computers when a blank is inserted: Aug 30 11:04:41 shack kernel: (cd0:ata3:0:0:0): CAM

FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

2013-08-06 Thread Thomas Laus
I have been updating my FreeBSD systems for many years by updating and building from source. For the FreeBSD 9.2 cycle, I decided to use freebsd-update for binary update instead. I use Sendmail + Cyrus-SASL and the freebsd-update process only installed a 'bare bones' binary. How do I

Re: FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

2013-08-06 Thread Thomas Laus
I have been updating my FreeBSD systems for many years by updating and building from source. For the FreeBSD 9.2 cycle, I decided to use freebsd-update for binary update instead. I use Sendmail + Cyrus-SASL and the freebsd-update process only installed a 'bare bones' binary. How do I

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-28 Thread Thomas Laus
Hi. I'm a bit short on free machines, so the closest I can get right now is my everyday machine running from sources cvsupped from RELENG_8 3.rd of March: I 'csuped' to FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE today and still had the same problem. This computer has normal floppy disk operation when using

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't even

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
uname -a FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #42: Sat Mar 3 20:05:21 CET 2012 rumrunner@elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUM amd64 fdformat works fine here with: dmesg |grep fdc fdc0: floppy drive controller (FDE) port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7

Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-17 Thread Thomas Laus
List: I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBSD 9 Stable with clean installs. I tried the 'fdformat' command prior