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Gustavo Rios | 1 Jul 2005 01:47
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Re: boot failure: If i could drop dead right now ...

Hey everybody.

I would like to let you know i have "fixed" it.
Now i have the disklabel layout i want.
I managed to get it working because instead of using 512/4K
fragment/block size (using disklabel into expert mode) i tried with
1K/8K for the a partition.

Now it works. Although i have no ideia how block size could influence that.

Would someone mind commenting it, i.e., why i could not use 512/4K for
frag/blk size?

thanks.

PS: Good work for 3.7, just now i have it installed in my box.

On 6/30/05, Tony <at> servacorp.com <Tony <at> servacorp.com> wrote:
> You'll probably get some better answers from the list, but this may give
> you an idea of what is going on.
> In olden days BIOS would only be able to handle disk within the first
> 1024 cylinders. (That's why you see stuff like 63 sectors/track and 255
> or so heads) Later BIOSes have upped the limit somewhat.
> Until enough of the OS gets itself loaded, the bootstrap is dependent on
> BIOS functions. Afterwards, the BIOS limitations are irrelevant.
> 
> If I'm doing strange things with disks, I try to put a bunch of small
> (DOS partitions) at the front end of the disk, Normally a 2G DOS formatted
> C: drive, followed by (or after a few other small partitions)
>
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Vivek Ayer | 1 Jul 2005 02:16
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sguil and OpenBSD

Hi all,

Has anyone installed sguil on OpenBSD? I hear ACID development has
stopped so it would be an opportune time to switch to sguil. If anyone
can point me in the right direction of an install-and-configure guide
specifically for openbsd, that would great. I'm running OpenBSD
3.7-current. I need it for the firewall that I have setup to protect a
wired and wireless network. Thanks.

Vivek
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Johan P. Lindström | 1 Jul 2005 02:16
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Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

On 6/30/05, Martin Reindl <mreindl <at> catai.org> wrote:
>
> Johan P. Lindstrvm <johan.p.lindstrom <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is with great sorrow I must report that the Linksys EG1032 cards as
> > of revision 3 no longer features the SySKonnect (sk) chips.
> > I bought 2 of them, they turned out to be revision 2 (SySKonnect), as
> > per
> > the hardware section on www.openbsd.org <http://www.openbsd.org> <
> http://www.openbsd.org>
> > (should probably be updated, im too green to submit a diff, sorry)
> > Now I bought 10 more, and imagine my face when i saw the stupid crab
> > on the
> > chip, for those who know these things, it also says:
> > RLT8169S-32
>
> Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.
>
> Martin
>
>  It would seem so, the chip, 8169S is at least, I will make sure to send a
dmesg to dmesg <at> 
 Any ideas as of where / how to get hold of older batches with the sk chips?
Where could I ask my vendor to turn?
 And just to explain my pov. I'm not in any way claiming that realtek is
bad, I just did not get what I was under the impression I bought.
 -- J
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Todd C. Miller | 1 Jul 2005 02:38
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Re: ATRUN Job / Cron file

In message <200506301607.j5UG7cv3013303 <at> shear.ucar.edu>
	so spake "Dave Beckstrom" (dbeck):

> I've been using a cron file (shown below) for some years and it references
> the atrun command.  It appears that the atrun command no longer exists as
> the man pages no longer reference it.
> 
> Is there a replacement for the atrun command or is there a means to add it
> to my system?

atrun is no longer needed, cron now runs at jobs like on most other
Unix systems (and with much better granularity than atrun did).

 - todd
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Tony | 1 Jul 2005 02:42

Re: boot failure: If i could drop dead right now ...

Just guessing, but it looks like you are at the very fringe of what BIOS
can and cannot access. Insignificant differences have large consequences,
just like a few inches near the edge of a cliff. If so, any recompile of
the kernel would be unbootable.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc <at> openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc <at> openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
Gustavo Rios
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:47 PM
To: Tony <at> servacorp.com; misc
Subject: Re: boot failure: If i could drop dead right now ...

Hey everybody.

I would like to let you know i have "fixed" it.
Now i have the disklabel layout i want.
I managed to get it working because instead of using 512/4K
fragment/block size (using disklabel into expert mode) i tried with
1K/8K for the a partition.

Now it works. Although i have no ideia how block size could influence that.

Would someone mind commenting it, i.e., why i could not use 512/4K for
frag/blk size?

thanks.

PS: Good work for 3.7, just now i have it installed in my box.

On 6/30/05, Tony <at> servacorp.com <Tony <at> servacorp.com> wrote:
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Michael Favinsky | 1 Jul 2005 02:49

Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

I have some DL140's running OpenBSD. The BIOS redirection stops working when
OpenBSD starts booting. Kinda sucks since you can't see the boot sequence or
go into the BIOS setup from a serial console. Disable the BIOS console
redirection and set OpenBSD to redirect the console to com0. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bruns [mailto:martin <at> konahina.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:55 AM
To: marc <at> msys.ch; misc <at> openbsd.org
Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

marc <at> msys.ch schrieb:

> Martin Bruns wrote:
>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> that was what I have done initially but then I fall back to 9600 but 
>> also there I did not get anything on the console after 'set tty 
>> com0'. To make it clear I can not use the serial nor the 
>> keyboard/monitor after that command.
>
>
> Maybe you serial link is not in order.  Set the baudrate to 9600, so 
> you are sure what parameters to set.

I already check that :-(

>
> FOr a first try, disable the serial console feature in the BIOS (not
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Daniel Gonzalez | 1 Jul 2005 03:01
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Re: Stopping Xorg cleanly on Mac Mini

Did you try pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace"? That shouls stop yoooour X
session and bring tyou to the command line.

Dan
Optimum Lightpath

On 6/30/05, Chandler May <hpxchan <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently posted to this list inquiring how to successfully
> initialize the Xorg server on a Mac Mini (With an LCD monitor through
> DVI) running OpenBSD 3.7. Now, I need to know how to stop it. ;-P
>
> I've tried "reboot" as root, and the "Exit" menu command in the FVWM
> menu, and I get the same results either way. After a few seconds, the
> screen goes blank. Another second and the keys lock up. Then, who
> knows what happens, but it doesn't leave me with any choice but to
> perform a hard reboot with the power button.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Chandler
>
>

--
Dan Gonzalez
spammesilly <at> gmail.com
IM: signulth
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Chandler May | 1 Jul 2005 05:26
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Re: Stopping Xorg cleanly on Mac Mini

On 6/30/05, Daniel Gonzalez <spammesilly <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you try pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace"? That shouls stop yoooour X
> session and bring tyou to the command line.
>  
>  Dan 
>  Optimum Lightpath
> 
> 

No, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace yields the same results - blank screen, locked
keys, bleh.

Chandler

> On 6/30/05, Chandler May <hpxchan <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently posted to this list inquiring how to successfully
> > initialize the Xorg server on a Mac Mini (With an LCD monitor through
> > DVI) running OpenBSD 3.7. Now, I need to know how to stop it. ;-P
> > 
> > I've tried "reboot" as root, and the "Exit" menu command in the FVWM
> > menu, and I get the same results either way. After a few seconds, the
> > screen goes blank. Another second and the keys lock up. Then, who 
> > knows what happens, but it doesn't leave me with any choice but to
> > perform a hard reboot with the power button.
> > 
> > Ideas?
> > 
> > Chandler
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Brian A. Seklecki | 1 Jul 2005 06:43

RAID-1 Root + boot(8) on i386/amd64

Please confirm that the following are applicable:

      * boot(8), biosboot(8), installboot(8), boot_i386(8) lack any
        support for booting off RAIDFrame volumes (a 13 line patch 22
        months ago fixed this on the bother side of the isleb(r)).  

      * No support is planned

      * raid(4) is no longer aggressively maintained and has been
        relegated to some reduced status based on the lack of commits to
        src/sys/dev/raidframe or possibly general lack of interest

I ask because RAIDFrame software RAID is still a very attractive option
to bworkgroupb and bentry levelb class servers; especially RAID-1 Root.

However, the requirement of having a ~15 megabyte UFS partition (say,
/antiraid) on both mirror components is cumbersome. Firstly, the
partition exists only to contain two files: /boot and /bsd. Secondly,
that creates administrative overhead and the possibility that each
partition could become desynchronized during an upgrade.

Another potential problem occurs in fstab(5). /antiraid *has* to be
mounted in order to provide a sym/hard link from /antiraid/bsd to /bsd
(yet another very bad idea, but less of a bad idea then having a 3rd
copy of bsd laying around). In a generic RAID-1 mirror between two wd(4)
disks, since /antiraid resides on either /dev/{r,}wd0a or /dev/{r,}wd1a,
the admin must arbitrarily choose which to reference in the shared
/etc/fstab.

In the event of a component failure (reboot incurred here, possibly
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Jean-Christophe Sicard | 1 Jul 2005 07:26
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Re: sguil and OpenBSD

Vivek Ayer wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone installed sguil on OpenBSD? I hear ACID development has
>stopped so it would be an opportune time to switch to sguil. If anyone
>can point me in the right direction of an install-and-configure guide
>specifically for openbsd, that would great. I'm running OpenBSD
>3.7-current. I need it for the firewall that I have setup to protect a
>wired and wireless network. Thanks.
>
>Vivek
>
>  
>
I've got a printed version of a document entitled "Complete Sguil 
Installation Guide On OpenBSD 3.6 [20050113]", but I can't seem to find 
the original file (pdf I believe) nor link to... Hopefully just the 
actual document title can help refine your search...

JC
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