syslogd exits with fatal error [Was Re: newsyslog does not find...]

2019-03-12 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:08:42AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > This is on 8.0_RC1 amd64. > > newsyslog: /var/run/syslogd.pid: No such file or directory > syslogd is sometimes exiting, not sure why, there is no disk space issue, nothing with heavy use of memory/swap is running. Last log says:

Re: The state of SAS

2019-03-12 Thread Mike Pumford
On 11/03/2019 15:11, Staffan Thomén wrote: Flashing sounds dangerous, and I expect I'd need at least a second card to get the existing data off my RAID sets unless there are firmwares that do both RAID and passthru. Yes you would lose access to the raid sets managed by the card and would

Re: playing with bootxx_ext2fs

2019-03-12 Thread Hauke Fath
On 3/12/19 9:21 AM, pierre-philipp braun wrote: Please help me understand how installboot is doing its job. I can try to take bits from bootxx_ext2fs and push it on the right places onto the ext2 file-system with dd if/skip of/seek. I am going out on a limb here, but what installboot does is

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread Benny Siegert
Correct. But does that matter? IIRC, only the Xen Dom0 kernel is multiboot-compliant, and even then, it is a multiboot _module_ to be loaded after the Xen kernel. But I could be wrong. On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:58 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > > knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e > > Hello

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread pierre-philipp braun
> knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e Hello Benny. Yes I've tested it and it works both against netbsd and netbsd.gz. But I believe this is NOT multiboot.

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread Benny Siegert
I think that GRUB2 has a special module and command to load NetBSD kernels: knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:37 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > Yolo again > > this message closely relates to my two previous ones -- on bootstrapping > netbsd from an ext2fs manually

MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread pierre-philipp braun
Yolo again this message closely relates to my two previous ones -- on bootstrapping netbsd from an ext2fs manually -- and I am now and finally considering MULTIBOOT. Although I have seen some success reports with GRUB2 *1, all I get is failures. With GRUB2/multiboot and multiboot2 I get