Re: cvsup, installer and booting

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

George Georgalis wrote:
> 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?

It is the CVS pository and has too be checked out to do anything usefull 
(the cvs -R -d %PATH% checkout %WHATEVER% way).
Read the README file in the root of your install CD-ROM, it is explained 
there what to do.

> 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=.

/usr will do fine in both cases for the base and the prefix, these are 
btw the checked out update files and wil create dirs the first time you 
use it, for the FreeBSD ports files it will be /usr/ports and for the 
DragonFly source it will be /usr/src



> 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?

Sorry I don't know that maybe somebody else.

> 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.

Yeah had the same, I reinstalled it and checked out both options in the 
bootloader questions and it worked for me.

> 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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