From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 20:46:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC3D16A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5F943D45 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:46:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 32761 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2005 20:46:40 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jul 2005 20:46:40 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3C0F02A; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:46:39 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Nikolas Britton To: FreeBSD - Questions References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Jul 2005 16:46:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44ek9lnvm8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD - Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:46:41 -0000 FreeBSD 6 (which hasn't been released yet, and will change a bit more before it is) is still very cutting edge. I would *strongly* recommend that you follow the -CURRENT mailing list if you're going to use it. Nikolas Britton writes: > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 7/26/05, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > Do I always need to run 'make cleandepend' when rebuilding a kernel, > > > normally I build my kernels the old school way? > > > > > > Is it just me or is -O2 now the default for kernel builds? What about > > > -Os, safe to use? Yes, and not sure. > > > The kernel build failed when it tired to compile the r128drm device. With a default kernel? Try updating your sources again. > > > Is it safe to run the ULE scheduler instead of the 4BSD scheduler, ULE > > > is commented out in the default kernel? See the -CURRENT list archives. It's gotten fairly stable for a lot of people, and performs better in a number of cases, but it still causes trouble in some others. > > > Is the new ATA RAID stuff, metadata something, going to be backported > > > to 5.x? I'm trying setup a RAID 1 mirror with Intel ICH5R / Adaptec > > > HostRAID but it looks like it's not supported in 5.x Search for messages about that. SOS@ has discussed it quite a bit, if I recall correctly. > > One more thing... Will FreeBSD 5.4 kernel modules work under 6.x? No. > > Sorry! a few more things: > > At boot up I get these errors / warnings: > "kenv: unable to get dumpdev" Try setting dumpdev? > "no such user: _dhcp, falling back to "nobody"" > > I left groups and master.passwd files to deal with later in > mergemaster and then I manually added the dhcp user to both of those > files but the system still can't find him. You rebuilt the password database, right? You know you can't just open up the password file and edit it? > "Starting default moused: moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy" > > I don't know whats up with that but my mouse does work. And if you disable moused? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/