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Hello, I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch). I'm thinking about submitting a PR with a change request but I'...

...e of 8.3-RELEASE that is on the ftp server, booted it up, and sure enough, as the dmesg scrolls I see it now properly recognizes da0 and da1, as it should (the memstick is da2). It sees the disks fine at this point, everything looks good. However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time". Any suggestions for avenues to troubleshoot this? I have pictures to document if it helps. Seems very odd. I confirmed the behavior with the SATA...

Hi, I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me? Here is how i did: 1) I installed 4.8-RELEASE from CD, 2) I used cvsup to upgrade. For this i used the stable-supfile as shown in the Handbook. => My OS version as shown by 'uname -a' and '/stand/sysinstall' is "4.8-STABLE". It looks like &qu...

Hi list, After a few updates from 4.4 through 4.8 using csvup, I want to update /stand/sysinstall et al in case of emergency. cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install works as expected, but only updates the stand binary. Allthough it's only a single binary, how do I build and install boot_crunch to /stand without building and figuring out a complete release-build? And,...

...ing the RAID1 disk set with the 64 bit ports as we speak. I came across a nasty little bug whilst doing so. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8U with a ULi SATA controller and AR0 set up as a RAID1 array using FreeBSD pseudo-RAID (ULi's metadata isn't supported). So far, so good. Then into sysinstall to create the partitions. To have the required number of partitions (to make my dump script easier to manage) I need two slices. The problem is that the BETA3 sysinstall marks both slices active, causing the BIOS to halt on boot with an "Invalid partition table" error. Is this a bug,...

...connected - one 20GB with actual system (ad1), and three 40GB to replace actual system (ad[023]). Plan was simple: 1. csup freebsd-stable 2. follow the tuning guide for zfs, rebuild world, kernel, and follow system upgrade 3. Reboot in single user mode 4. fdisk new disks with sysinstall using one big slice for every disk 5. bsdlabel every new disk with sysinstall using: 1GB for /, 512MB for swap, and rest unused (for ZFS) 6. gmirror -n -v -b round-robin boot ad0s1a ad2s1a ad3s1a 7. newfs /dev/mirror/boot 8. mount /dev/mirror/boot /mnt && cd /mnt 9....

I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-) install. The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy. We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the install.cfg from the bootable CD. I've found other folks asking the same question, but to date no answers... Any tips or poi...

Hey folks, So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk geometry I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid disk upon booting it. Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information on drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall the correct figures. What should I do? Thanks, Joe

I'm cvsupping 4.8-STABLE to 4.8-STABLE. The cvsup run finished about 23:32 on 7/13. After make buildworld, make buildkernel, mergemaster -p, make installworld, and mergemaster -v, I do (per mostgraveconcern, RIP): cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall make clean make all install The 'make all install' gives errors: In file included from keymap.c:40: keymap.h:4436: `keymap_be_iso' undeclared here (not in a function) keymap.h:4436: initializer element is not constant keymap.h:4436: (near initialization for `keymapInfos[0].map') k...

Hi, all I need building my own install server and want install my custom world, custom kernel and other in non-interactive mode. With 6.1-beta3 it work in mass (I not try install my kernel). With 6.1-beta4 and more fresh I can't get non-interactive installation. 1. I can't find how to select timezone non-interactive. 2. I can't good variant for installing my own kernel (now I use

I used /stand/sysinstall/ to get a package I tried every USA ftp and some England ftp sites Only to get the message Can't find the 4.8-stable ..... Is it because it's called 4.8-release at the ftp site? or Other... Thank You, Doug

After installing a text-based development environment via /stand/sysinstall (followed by CVSup, makeworld/kernel etc to 4-8-stable), I realize I want to install KDE, too. I initiated this with: pkg_add -r kdebase followed again by CVSup etc. Apparently that wasn't enough. Am getting message "XFree86 setup utility.. not installed" when trying to config xf...

In the next month or two I've got to upgrade a number of servers that are currently on an EOL'd version of 4-STABLE. I foresee that I'll have very limited time to do full OS upgrades on these systems in the coming several years, so I want to make sure I bring them onto an extended-life branch. Right now 4.11 has the furthest projected EOL date (Jan 31 2007), and the projected EOL

...xen FreeBSD bugs filed for me to track. I intend to file a bug report sooner or later, but in the meantime I decided to toy around with the kernel and the mfsroot from 5.3-release, and I did eventually come up with something suitable. By a combination of stripping down both the DOMU kernel and the sysinstall floppy, I managed to get the pair together in a size that works and doesn''t caush an immediate crash under Xen. I''ve FTP installed 10 different guests with it now :-) Details and the files are at http://txrx.org/xen/ Regards Chris _____________________________________________...

...When is is finally built and installed, I can run wine itself but I can not use ./tools/wineinstall for tune-up :( It says "command not found" Any suggestions? I tried chmod -x, checked all permissions to 755, tried under user and under root, tried install from port, from package list (sysinstall) and from source tarball - the same result! What should I do ?!?! Please help! -- Alex

...the drive geometry with the G option and it shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it really is. I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the correct CHS: ad0: 28615MB <IC25N030ATDA04-0> [58140/16/63] This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in parentheses as ASCII characters: ad0: dma limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 692MB <(smiley face black)C 5(smiley face white)0(heart)0(smiley face black)T@A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 Thanks, Brad Davis

Dear All , In sysinstall , there are menu items to install packages from release DVD . In bsdinstall , there is NO such package installation menu items . Another problem is there is no any available information about this subject in the Handbook installation pages ( at least I could not find any one one ) . Is there any...

I went from 4.6.2 to 4.8 via cvsup I can't get any of the ports to compile only a bunch of error messages I rebuilt sysinstall, made my ports current with cvsup, the new kernel via /usr/src what did I miss??? Thank You, Doug

...supposed to work? I tried to follow what is written in the installation manual: unplugging the keyboard does nothing, booting with 'boot -h' gives me all the kernel's device probing messages on both the serial console and the normal console, but after 'mounting root from ...' sysinstall appears on the normal console. harti

I've built RELENG_4 isos no problem, is there a trick to building the RELENG_4_8 isos? I am building the 'miniinst' disk - that is, with the release, docs, and a port tree, but no ports. This is so I can do a fresh install without having to update the world... I am using a script that looks like this... #!/bin/sh rm -rf /usr/obj cd /usr/src make -DNOCLEAN world kernel cd