Re: [PATCH v9 19/19] isa: allow ISA bus to attach to xenpv device

2014-01-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/2/14, 4:43 PM, Roger Pau Monne wrote: --- sys/x86/isa/isa.c |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys/x86/isa/isa.c b/sys/x86/isa/isa.c index 1a57137..9287ff2 100644 --- a/sys/x86/isa/isa.c +++ b/sys/x86/isa/isa.c @@ -241,3 +241,6 @@

Re: number of xen block devices

2016-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 21/09/2016 11:26 AM, Colin Percival wrote: On 09/21/16 09:13, Michael Sierchio wrote: Also check if there is a resource limit imposed by AWS. If you are bumping into that, a simple request can get the limit raised for a particular availability zone. AWS limits can be an issue, but it would

Re: number of xen block devices

2016-09-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 20/09/2016 4:50 PM, Colin Percival wrote: On 09/20/16 16:33, Julian Elischer wrote: Is there a maximum number of block devices supported for an AMI type installation? Does "AMI type installation" mean EC2? yes Our tests a while back showed a limit of 14. Has that chang

number of xen block devices

2016-09-20 Thread Julian Elischer
hi, Is there a maximum number of block devices supported for an AMI type installation? Our tests a while back showed a limit of 14. Has that changed in 10.3? If not is it an artificial limit we can get past by simply recompiling something? Julian

amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader?

2017-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard rumors that it was available I have not seen any sign of it) so I'd like to put a "recovery partition" into an AMI. The trick is how to convince it to boot to that instead of the regular action. The ideal thing would be if there was

Re: amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader?

2017-04-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/4/17 2:09 pm, Toomas Soome wrote: On 12. apr 2017, at 9:04, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: On 12/4/17 12:34 pm, Colin Percival wrote: [CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2] On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote: In Amaz

Re: amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader?

2017-04-12 Thread Julian Elischer
PM, "Colin Percival" <cperc...@tarsnap.com <mailto:cperc...@tarsnap.com>> wrote: [CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2] On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote: > In Amazon ec2 they have no consol

Re: amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader?

2017-04-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/4/17 12:34 pm, Colin Percival wrote: [CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2] On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote: In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard rumors that it was available I have not seen any sign of it) so I'd like

Re: amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader?

2017-04-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 13/4/17 2:07 am, Jeremiah Lott via freebsd-cloud wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Leif Pedersen wrote: I keep an extra EBS volume handy that has a simple recovery image. If I get stuck into a trouble, I change the normal boot disk to sdb, and attach my recovery