Dean Hamstead wrote:
is this spinning disk sequence you described actually just these 4 ascii
characters being displayed such they appear spinning?
ie -\|/-
this is the freebsd kernel booting.
seems strange that you would install the freebsd kernel source code? i
dont think the intention is to be able to boot your deb system in to
either a freebsd or linux kernel. but rather that the whole debian
install is built to run with the freebsd kernel rather than the linux
kernel.
i would be impressed if the userspace was kernel independent and a binary
level :)
Dean
On 4/7/2010, "Adam Bogacki" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I have a dual-boot system running an xubuntu pkg on WattOS ubuntu
(zeno), and sid/squeeze debian (Tui).
For some time I used Tui as my main working system and zeno as a backup.
One day 'apt-cache search' threw up package 'kfreebsd-source-7.0',
described as
"code for the FreeBSD 7.0 kernel with debian patches". I assumed this meant
it was debian-friendly, and apt-installed it.
The next reboot, however, hung at the stage when a circular cursor
appeared on
a black screen. The cursor was moveable and consisted of a turning disk,
but the
boot process never went further.
I booted into zeno (/dev/sa1) and mounted the file system (/dev/sdb1)
and the
home directory (/dev/sdb9) of Tui, including them in zeno's /etc/fstab
for future use.
I have been able to copy docs I am working on .. and have come to
appreciate WattOS's
power saving features and crisp performance on a P4 with 2Gb RAM.
But I have not been able to boot into Tui.
Realising that BSD uses ZFS, I unmounted /dev/sdb1 and ran
sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb1
getting
a...@zeno:~$ sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb1
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):
done
/dev/sdb1: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sdb1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sdb1: 11143/86344 files (7.7% non-contiguous), 239977/345364 blocks
.. and the same on /dev/sdb9.
My question is, have I borked the file structure on Tui ? What am I
missing here ?
Cheers,
Adam Bogacki,
[email protected]
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No, it appears to be the usual spinning disk image - a disk with a
rotating radius
within it - although, if you make allowance for the speed of rotation
you could be right.
Hard to tell, frankly.
Thanks, I have slept on it and this morning discovered
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/kFreeBSD#cite_note-4
which has some good links.
I might try #debian-kbsd at OFTC, but it is often hard to judge
when these northern-hemispheric folks are up.
seems strange that you would install the freebsd kernel source code? i
dont think the intention is to be able to boot your deb system in to
either a freebsd or linux kernel. but rather that the whole debian
install is built to run with the freebsd kernel rather than the linux
kernel.
Aaargh, in retrospect ..
I read (somewhere) that the the BSD kernel with deb patches could
coexist with debian,
implying they could chosen via GRUB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFTC
.. snip ..
No official release of the operating system has yet been made, but
Debian Squeeze (6.0), expected to be frozen in March 2010^[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/kFreeBSD#cite_note-3> and released
in 2010, aims to support it.
.. suggests I may have been jumping the gun.
My current problem is how to extricate myself from debian hanging before
GDM comes up without having to reinstall. What could be causing that ?
Thanks for the reply,
Adam Bogacki,
[email protected]
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