Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-22 Thread Matt Thomas
acorn26 was moved to Tier III last week and unless someone steps forward it will be removed sometime in Mid-October 2015. To quote http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ : “The reasons can range from lack of community interest to the hardware becoming so rare that it is simply not available any more.

why does dk(4) take precedence in boot device selection???

2015-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
I had the occasion to reboot one of my shiny new Xen servers today for the first time in a month and I found that it failed to boot because of the appearance since the previous successful boot of a new dk(4) attachment created for a GPT partition on another drive. boot device: dk0

Re: modules on -current

2015-04-22 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Yes, the command line (for i386, obviously) is ./build.sh -D/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/destdir -M/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/obj -N2 -R/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/release -T/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/tools -U -X/home/sysbuild/xsrc -j6 -mi386 -u -x release iso-image (I use pkgsrc/sysbuild).

Re: why does dk(4) take precedence in boot device selection???

2015-04-22 Thread Michael van Elst
wo...@planix.ca (Greg A. Woods) writes: Am I missing something here that I could do to change the wedge configuration to avoid this issue? Is it still so difficult to discover which device the boot loader booted the kernel from on such a semi-modern amd64 machine that the kernel can make such