From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 14:29:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26E337B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EC043FB1; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:29:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RMTs3q027004; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:29:55 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:29:53 -0500 To: John Baldwin From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:04 PM -0500 2/27/03, John Baldwin wrote: >On 27-Feb-2003 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >> I'm thinking maybe the 5.x release CD's should include: >> GENERIC >> GENERIC +SMP > >I plan to make SMP kernels work on a UP machine like they do on all >of our other platforms thus obsoleting the need for this. Ooo. This will be highly appreciated for my collection of SMP boxes! > > GENERIC +VMWARE-friendly settings > >This might be useful. > >> GENERIC for i386 > >I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just accidentally >broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing. >People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer >either. I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for >rather long periods of time before being noticed as well. Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel? > > Would that add too much extra work for a 5.x release? > >You have access to the source, go for it. :) With cdboot, all you >need to do is create a /boot/vmware/ directory with kernel (and >maybe modules) in the ISO image and the user can break into the >loader and type 'boot vmware' to boot it. src/release/* awaits >your tested patches. Hmm. Well, right now I'm busy trying to make newsyslog more "admin-friendly", but I'll keep this pointer in mind. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message