cvsup, installer and booting

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi - Yesterday decided to try DragonFly. I have a lot of Linux
background and had a crash course, on the job training of FreeBSD a
while back... so I have a clue, but device names, packaging, and some
tools are different from what I'm use to.

My first attempt installed and booted fine; but I had a problem
with cvsup. I ended up using "*default release=cvs" in both
dragonfly-cvs-supfile and FreeBSD-ports-supfile, but that gives me "*,v"
files. Is there a way to use them locally or should I use "*default
release=cvs tag=." to get actual Makefiles?

Another question about DragonFly cvsup. Is it okay to use the same
"base=/usr" in both dragonfly-cvs-supfile and FreeBSD-ports-supfile, or
should I use "base=/usr/local/FreeBSD" for those ports, why will sharing
/usr not be a problem? I presume I need separate prefix directories?
(below prefix was changed because of disk space)

#FreeBSD-ports-supfile
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr/fcvs
#*default release=cvs
*default release=cvs tag=.

#dragonfly-cvs-supfile
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr/dcvs
#*default release=cvs
*default release=cvs tag=.


I had more serious problems on my second machine. The installer uses
UDMA33. Linux has problems setting the speed automatically (it uses
UDMA66), but I can speed it up manually (commands below). The bios
supports ATA 133 and there is a (1 channel) 80 pin ribbon. Can I fix
this from the DragonFly installer?


The show stopper is it doesn't boot. The bootloader says something like
this:
f1 DOS
f2 BSD
f5 xxx

I don't remember exactly what xxx is but it does successfully launch
the bootloader on what bios sees as the first disk on an auxiliary ata
controller, xxx (it's an sata).

I've used the installer defaults, and installed DragonFly on
/dev/ad0s2{a,d,e,f,g} for / /var /tmp /usr /home
plus a swap in there somewhere.

When I went back to the installer to repair the install, it saw them
(the slice?) but it couldn't mount the bsd partitions. Second attempt to
install did the same thing. What's going on here? Output of some linux
commands are below.

I had a good feeling about DragonFly from the first time I heard of it,
and now it's being mentioned in very respectable circles. The undertaking
is impressive and I commend the developers who are behind it!

// George
 


@715 root@sta:~/ # hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 120103200, start = 0
@729 root@sta:~/ # hdparm -c 1 -d1 -p 4 -X udma5 -m 16 -z /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 attempting to set PIO mode to 4
 setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
 setting multcount to 16
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 setting xfermode to 69 (UltraDMA mode5)
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
@729 root@sta:~/ # hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 120103200, start = 0
@732 root@sta:~/ # hdparm -I  /dev/hda | egrep '(DMA|PIO)' | grep -v QUEUED
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
@739 root@sta:~/ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3123
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3104 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3177
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller (rev 74)
00:14.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 3112 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3122 (rev 03)
@739 root@sta:~/ # fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1      1785  14337981    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2   *      1786      7476  45712957+  a5  FreeBSD
@740 root@sta:~/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 9
model name      : VIA Nehemiah
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 999.937
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr mtrr pge cmov mmx fxsr sse rng rng_en
bogomips        : 1974.27


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George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE
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