billy's blog

Category: FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD 6.0 Released

    4 days has passed since the new FreeBSD logo and now a fresh FreeBSD is waiting to grab it from the mirrors.

    I wish i will find some time to test it. Even on a virtual machine…

  • New FreeBSD logo

    The competition is over.

    Finally after about 8 months from the announcement we have a new Logo.

    And believe me it is really nice (http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/640-1.png).
    Even if it isn’t the daemon, we will get used to it

  • Funded FreeBSD development project

    Poul-Henning Kamp send an update of the Funded FreeBSD development project.

    He has done an excellent work.

    Only one comment: On his mail he mention the following
    [b]”I rather fear I sound as boring as the tourist guides on
    the ruins of Akropolis, my apologies.”[/b]

    He was in Greece and we didn’t notice it ? To bad for us…..

  • FreeBSD 5.3 finally boots

    After talking with sivitos (one of my friends, and a known freebsd guru) about the uhci GIANT-LOCKED he suggested to turn off the USB support.

    Turning off the USB wasn’t a option cause i will use it later, but i found on the BIOS that i could turn off the usb legacy emulation.

    And guess: The Freebsd boots :), and FreeSBIE works also. Happy playing

  • FreeBSD 5.3 problems

    After the release of FreeBSD on 06 Nov 2004, i wanted to do a test installation in my laptop, a Toshiba Pro M10.

    Of course it didn’t succeded. The machine hung with a GIANT-LOCKED after probing the onboard USB controller. I didn’t have more time to investigate it so i did an abort.

    Today i downloaded FreeSBIE, a freebsd [url]www.freesbie.org/[/url] live cd similar to knoppix, and try to see if it boot. Same error again.

    Now it is time to find a solution. Doing a little search on google it appears that i am not the only person with the same problem, but i didn’t find a clear solution.

    Disabling acpi didn’t help. The last message just for reference is the following:

    [b]uhci0: port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
    uhci0: Reserved 0x20 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xefe0
    uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED][/b]

    I will look at it again in the weekend. It is too bad i cannot run freebsd in my laptop 🙁