On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:32, Fred Souza wrote:
> Good to know, I never really paid much attention to those details (I
> will from now on). Thank you a lot for the help, Jeremy. I will try
> your suggestions in the morning and post back to tell what did I find
> out.
Like I said, here are my fin
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:25, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Absolutely. I've done it myself many times over the years, including
> remotely over serial console. However, you said you did that then typed
> "exit" rather than "reboot", and the end result was a kernel panic.
Yes, I should have given i
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:16:47AM -0300, Fred Souza wrote:
> > I'd recommend booting/trying an actual 8.0-STABLE snapshot image from
> > here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201004/
> >
> > This will allow you to boot and install 8.0-STABLE on your system. You
> > should see
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:06, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> There is probably an ata(4) device layer change which either fixes (yes
> really), breaks (possibly), or enhances (likely) support for your ATA or
> SATA controller. This is pretty much how the ata(4) layer has behaved
> for years upon years
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:51, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 1) We use csup now, not cvsup. csup comes with the base system, so
> there's no need to install cvsup.
>
> 2) I'm not sure why you're downloading ports.tar.gz and extracting it.
> This means that /var/db/sup/ports-all won't match what's
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:00:38PM -0300, Fred Souza wrote:
> I give up and reinstall (that first install had given me quite a
> headache with incorrect drive geometry [that I had to fix with a lot
> of research to get to TestDisk and GAG], so I thought it was best to
> just start fresh). I do the
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:00:38PM -0300, Fred Souza wrote:
> I did a similar procedure as I used to on the old system, grabbed a
> fresh ports.tar.gz, uncompressed it under /usr, installed cvsup and
> proceeded to updating /usr/src to -STABLE (using the RELENG_8 tag). So
> far, so good.
1) We use
Hello,
I recently reinstalled FreeBSD 8.0 on my computer, after a long hiatus
(last version before that was 7-CURRENT before 7.0-RELEASE, on an old
computer). I read a lot of documentation to try and make sure I caught
up with any important changes before messing too much with the system.
I did a
