Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:46:08 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 Message-ID: <ef10de9a05072616464cee0399@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <ef10de9a05072613007ac60130@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a050726130739ab0b8@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a05072613336b21765b@mail.gmail.com> <44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 26 Jul 2005 16:46:39 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> 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 <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: >=20 > > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> 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.
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