Re: A (partial) installation report
torsdag 04 februari 2010 16:58:38 skrev Rogério Brito:
> Hi, Petr.
>
> On Feb 04 2010, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-quarter-big.png
> > http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/NOTES.archive
>
> Thanks. I will keep an eye on both.
>
> > >If I understand it correctly, FreeBSD uses OSS and programs with
> > > support for that should work. Is that right? I don't know if I
> > > would need to load any possible module or not.
> >
> > Yes, 1st guess is to try "kldload snd_t4dwave",
>
> OK, this worked fine. mplayer is able to play a video that I just got
> from youtube. vlc, on the other hand, just spat a bunch of error
> messages. I filed a bug against xserver-xorg-video-sis, since I
> didn't know any better. I did not tag it with user nor with the
> debian-bsd list.
>
> > alternatively please send "lspci -v" and "lspci -vn".
>
> I will put these lists on a webpage just for reference, since I may
> be filing some extra bugs with this machine.
>
> > >kfreebsd-8 doesn't boot, while kfreebsd-7 does. Any hint here?
> >
> > Does it start booting, i.e have been kernel loaded ?
>
> Yes, it does boot. But it complains that the kernel could not mount
> the root device, even though the device name is exactly the same as
> the one in kfreebsd-7 (/dev/ad2s1).
>
> Of course, I don't know if I don't have the proper kernel driver
> compiled in the kernel or not or if the name of the device has
> changed with version 8 or whatever.
>
> With Linux, I frequently compile my own kernels---so I don't have
> this problem there, but I hope to be able to customize my own
> kernels with kfreebsd.
>
> > What is the last line printed ?
>
> Well, the last line isn't really useful, since it is just a boot
> prompt and nothing else. The preceeding lines are more informative,
> though (copied by hand---please excuse any errors here):
>
> ,----
>
> | Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1294237239 Hz quality 80
> | Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> | Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1
> | ROOT MOUNT ERROR
> | If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the
> | following from the loader prompt:
> |
> | set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
> |
> | and then remove invalid entries from /etc/fstab
> |
> | Loader variables:
> | vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad2s1
> | vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
>
> `----
>
> If I try to ? at the boot prompt, then it tell me that:
>
> ,----
>
> | List of GEOM managed disk devices:
>
> `----
>
> Yes, an empty list. Is there anything easy to solve this?
>
>
> Thanks for your kind support,
The kernels>=8 don't come with some geom-classes by default anymore.
Load the following modules on start:
geom_bsd
geom_label
geom_mb
Maybe you can load them directly with grub2, I don't know.
Regards,
Hannes
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