MavEtJu's Distorted View of the World - 2007-05

Posted on 2007-05-18 10:00:00
Tags: Adventures, FreeBSD, HP

Today for the first time in my life I had troubles setting up a normal FreeBSD machine due to the geometry of the disk. The machine has a Raid 6i card in it, and there are four 147Gb disks in a RAID5 configuration.

The device gets detected as:

da0: 420029MB (860220400 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C

A geometry of 105419/255/32 for da0 is incorrect.

DISK Geometry: 53546 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 860216490 sectors (420027MB)

Installing FreeBSD on that geometry goes without a problem. But at a reboot, it doesn't work anymore. Pressing F1 for FreeBSD at the bootmanager doesn't work, it just beeps.

Luckely Darius on #bsddev knew how to resolve this:

<Darius> also, can you get to the loader prompt on the CD after you have installed and type..
<Darius> unload
<aDrius> set currdev=disk1s1a:
<aDrius> boot -s
<Darius> then run boot0cfg /dev/da0

Posted on 2007-05-10 10:00:00
Tags: Happiness

We were flying back from Cairns to Sydney, the plane landed and people stood up and started to unpack their overhead luggage and move to the front of the plane. This was a little bit too early in the eyes of the captain, and he announced "Ladies and gentlemen... Can you please stay in your seats until the seatbelts sign has been turned off?". Yes, we were still taxiing towards the gate...

Posted on 2007-05-02 17:00:00
Tags: FreeBSD, RSS

Today is a sad day in the world of podcasting. Well, for FreeBSD that is. It seems that the FreeBSD For All podcast has disappeared from the internet. It was one only user-driven FreeBSD related podcast. Copies of the show can still be found at the PodcastDirectory.com, but not sure how much longer they will be there.