Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-07 Thread Carsten Mattner
Has anyone successfully installed DragonFly as a single boot system on an EFI Mac?

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-19 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed DragonFly as a single >> boot system on an EFI Mac? > > > I'd be interested in this too. I failed: got the boot pr

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-20 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:09 PM, peeter (must) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Carsten Mattner >>> wrote: >>>> Has anyone su

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-21 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:09 PM, peeter (must) wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Carsten Mattner >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) wrote: >>>> On Wed, Mar

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-22 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:28 AM, peeter (must) wrote: > Thanks again, partial success so far: could get refit working but > apparently refit does not boot dfly, or at least not yet. > > I made two partitions for dfly as described in the README on the live > cd, a ufs partition for /boot and hamme

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-23 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:05 AM, peeter (must) wrote: >>> Thanks again, partial success so far: could get refit working but >>> apparently refit does not boot dfly, or at least not yet. >>> >>> I made two partitions for dfly as described in the README on the live >>> cd, a ufs partition for /boot

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. >> >> When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow set

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Raimundo Santos wrote: > Well... you are very lucky! :) Always have identical spare mainboard just in case? > Try to boot without the HDD and see what happens. That worked see the other reply.

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Edward M wrote: > On 07/03/2012 02:15 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> >> At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since that time the machine >> won't leave the BIOS startup phase (POST?). >> >> Took out the CMOS battery for

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. >> >> When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow set

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:16:25 +0200, Carsten Mattner > > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner >>> wro

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Normally this issue can be fixed by setting the BIOS to access the > disk in LBA or LARGE mode. The problem is due to a bug in the BIOS's > attempt to interpret the slice table in CHS mode instead of logical > block mode. It

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip. > : > :It did of course hang when I tried to DEL into the BIOS. > :What worked is pulling out the sata connector, entering > :the BIOS putting it back and then detecting the disk. > :Interesting the

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon > wrote: >> >> :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip. >> : >> :It did of course hang when I tried to DEL into the BIOS. >> :What worked is pulling out

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon >> wrote: >>> >>> :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip. >>> : >>> :I

Re: questions from FreeBSD user

2012-07-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > For now i am FreeBSD user, but when i read what are proposed by > developers(!) for FreeBSD i clearly understand i will need something else. Which FreeBSD plans do you find worrisome?

Re: questions from FreeBSD user

2012-07-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> For now i am FreeBSD user, but when i read what are proposed by >>> developers(!) for FreeBSD i clearly understand i will need something >>> else. >> >> >> Which FreeBSD plans do you find worrisome? >> > more and more "user friendly"

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell wrote: > John Marino a écrit : >> >> On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: >>> >>> Wojciech Puchar a écrit : > > despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as > I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is n

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-21 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Marino wrote: > On 7/20/2012 20:53, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell >> >> Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches >> (if you have the skills)

Re: What's the status of the USB stack port?

2012-09-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Markus Pfeiffer wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:44:47PM +1000, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Last time I heard there was someone working on the port. I'd be willing to >> test (my dragonfly installation is long not used because