Re: macppc - Booting with a SATA PCI drive

2018-10-26 Thread Katherine Rohl
Oh no, the SATA adapter works fine. It’s recognized by Open Firmware and the boot menu lets me select the Tiger install. What I don’t know is how to *manually* boot it through the Open Firmware console so I can load the OpenBSD boot loader. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 26, 2018, at 8:13 PM,

Re: macppc - Booting with a SATA PCI drive

2018-10-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/25/18 14:51, Katherine Rohl wrote: > I’m trying to run OpenBSD and Tiger on one hard drive on a Mac G4 > tower. I’ve successfully installed 6.4 onto the drive and I can still > boot from Tiger, so that’s good. I then copied ofwboot to the Tiger > partition (since it’s the first HFS+

dmesg Gigabyte GA-J3455N-D3H

2018-10-26 Thread stolen data
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-J3455N-D3H-rev-10#ov OpenBSD 6.4 (GENERIC.MP) #364: Thu Oct 11 13:30:23 MDT 2018 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 4116643840 (3925MB) avail mem = 3982606336 (3798MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256

Sound from vmm guest

2018-10-26 Thread Ken M
So I am working on a bit of an experiment. I have a debian sid guest in vmm. xrdp is installed as is the pulse audio module for xrdp so that it can see the xrdp output in the mixer. I can connect just fine till I try to get sound out. Remmina wouldn't work with sound so to have more control I

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-26 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday, October 25, 2018 9:59:09 PM -03 Philip Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:44 PM diego righi wrote: > > So why openbsd 6.4 i386 and amd64 bootloaders (not biosboot, boot!) > > express different behavior? Wasn't openbsd about correctness? :/ > > If I'm wrong and it is

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-26 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:57:50AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Using one big "a" partition means: > > - higher risk of filesystem damage to system partitions after an > unsafe restart (crash, power failure): if a partition isn't actively > written to, it's less likely to suffer damage > >

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
Using one big "a" partition means: - higher risk of filesystem damage to system partitions after an unsafe restart (crash, power failure): if a partition isn't actively written to, it's less likely to suffer damage - missing protective flags (e.g. nodev, nosuid) that are set on mounts that don't

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:44 PM diego righi wrote: > So why openbsd 6.4 i386 and amd64 bootloaders (not biosboot, boot!) > express different behavior? Wasn't openbsd about correctness? :/ > If I'm wrong and it is documented that I can't do this fine, but so also > i386 should not work, this

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-26 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:41:54AM +0200, diego righi wrote: > So let's say I'm a fool, I use a foolish partition layout, and the intel x86 > and amd64 architectures are tricky/shitty architectures with stupid bioses > which work bad, ok? > So why openbsd 6.4 i386 and amd64 bootloaders (not