From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 23:46:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCF316A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:46:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3541C43D45 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:46:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i12so50715wra for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:46:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mx/BNEVNay3Jk0xJI7mHEYwfUPpZVCsAleMpyXcR/ZYAYM3nZDMAK8s9uTxaAs4LNxO7KY44ZMO41HfWOTKrRN24bVPNbD56acCiCxLMD2Ogx2qRWYB8wyGNPK96coAJIUDUlSBmX7ybPYlml3HrA8uIrsswBrxwaSWh/a5+zwk= Received: by 10.54.43.11 with SMTP id q11mr125161wrq; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:46:08 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: FreeBSD - Questions In-Reply-To: <44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:46:09 -0000 On 26 Jul 2005 16:46:39 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > FreeBSD 6 (which hasn't been released yet, and will change a bit more > before it is) is still very cutting edge. I would *strongly* > recommend that you follow the -CURRENT mailing list if you're going to > use it. >=20 > Nikolas Britton writes: >=20 > > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > Do I always need to run 'make cleandepend' when rebuilding a kernel= , > > > > normally I build my kernels the old school way? > > > > > > > > Is it just me or is -O2 now the default for kernel builds? What abo= ut > > > > -Os, safe to use? >=20 > Yes, and not sure. >=20 > > > > The kernel build failed when it tired to compile the r128drm device= . >=20 > With a default kernel? Try updating your sources again. >=20 I can try it again and post the error > > > > Is it safe to run the ULE scheduler instead of the 4BSD scheduler, = ULE > > > > is commented out in the default kernel? >=20 > See the -CURRENT list archives. It's gotten fairly stable for a lot > of people, and performs better in a number of cases, but it still > causes trouble in some others. What kind of troubles are we talking about? also I see that preemption is now on by default. I have been running preemption on a 5.x box of a long time now, no problems. =20 >=20 > > > > Is the new ATA RAID stuff, metadata something, going to be backport= ed > > > > to 5.x? I'm trying setup a RAID 1 mirror with Intel ICH5R / Adaptec > > > > HostRAID but it looks like it's not supported in 5.x >=20 > Search for messages about that. SOS@ has discussed it quite a bit, if > I recall correctly. >=20 > > > One more thing... Will FreeBSD 5.4 kernel modules work under 6.x? >=20 Yes I just found that out when I tried to load the Highpoint RAID driver on FreeBSD 6, the system panics very early in the boot process. This means that FreeBSD 6 is completely out of the question for this system and I really did not want to run 6.x anyways, I'm migrating a production 5.4 server to this new hardware. What is SOS@? and where can I read the discussions about sata RAID problems? I seem to have two options for this server: (1) Get the ICH5R / Adaptec HostRAID working with 5.4 (as device ar0, ad4 += ad6) (2) Find a (cheap) SATA RAID 1 card that is supported by the ar / ata device in 5.4. The problem with (2) is that I can't find any cheap (less then $60 USD) SATA RAID 1 cards that will work with device ar. I'm going to post this problem to a new thread. >=20 > > > > Sorry! a few more things: > > > > At boot up I get these errors / warnings: > > "kenv: unable to get dumpdev" >=20 > Try setting dumpdev? >=20 > > "no such user: _dhcp, falling back to "nobody"" > > > > I left groups and master.passwd files to deal with later in > > mergemaster and then I manually added the dhcp user to both of those > > files but the system still can't find him. >=20 > You rebuilt the password database, right? You know you can't just > open up the password file and edit it? No I did not, how do I regenerate the database? normally I use pw or vipw when I change that stuff and I've never been asked by mergemaster to change those files. Also with mergemaster it seemed like 50% of the 100 or so files that where changed where just changes to the cvs doc revision / timestamp... wouldn't it be better to install those files by default instead of asking the user? >=20 > > "Starting default moused: moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy= " > > > > I don't know whats up with that but my mouse does work. >=20 > And if you disable moused? Not sure, I installed it on one of my home systems and I'm at work. Thanks.