Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-28 Thread Chris Bennett
Some BIOS's require you to select legacy boot and legacy boot before UEFI in order to boot off of a USB. Also might need to turn off boot security option, too. A lot of BIOS's suck nowadays. Who woulda thought that examining the BIOS would become a purchasing decision? A future BIOS update might

Re: UNIX crash course

2020-04-28 Thread Chris Bennett
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 06:48:37PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Outside of certain network infrastructure (RIRs and DNS software > vendors) and TLDs offering incentives (.se and .nl, maybe others) DNSSEC > is still very rare. Do a lookup of a couple of dozen randomly chosen > general purpose

Re: Sound is good on OpenBSD

2020-04-28 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, David Demelier wrote: > Le 28/04/2020 à 14:01, Yury Grebenkin a écrit : > >> OpenBSD gives a better sound experience on my machine than several >> Linux distributions I have used and FreeBSD. Just want to say thank >> you to all the people involved and state the fact

boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-28 Thread f.holop
hi, i am trying to run openbsd on a very new notebook and it kind of works. i have taken away some space from win10 and created a partition, and the installation went well. atm i dont want to create a boot menu, so i just insert a usb key with openbsd installed on it, and i select the kernel

Re: UNIX crash course

2020-04-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-04-28, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote: >> mail.  Since I don't trust Google or pretty much any "free" provider at >> this point, that means doing it myself.  Some steps (registering a >> domain, ordering business-class service or a static IP, etc) are >> self-evident.  But after that, there's

Re: UNIX crash course

2020-04-28 Thread Pierre-Philipp Braun
mail.  Since I don't trust Google or pretty much any "free" provider at this point, that means doing it myself.  Some steps (registering a domain, ordering business-class service or a static IP, etc) are self-evident.  But after that, there's a lot I really need to learn Running your own

Re: snapshot checksums failing

2020-04-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
f.holop wrote: > would it be possible to regenerate the latest snapshots > (amd64, cdn.openbsd.org)? some of the archives show > checksum errors... No. Builds are continual, but the mirrors can temporarily de-sync and have a partial. That's what is going on, nothing more.

snapshot checksums failing

2020-04-28 Thread f.holop
hi, would it be possible to regenerate the latest snapshots (amd64, cdn.openbsd.org)? some of the archives show checksum errors... thank you. -f --

installation hangs/crashes on 2007 iMac

2020-04-28 Thread Allan Streib
With extra time while in quarantine I idly tried to install 6.6 on an older iMac[1] I have. Using install66.fs on a USB flash drive, when starting (holding ALT key) it was offered as a boot disk choice. It reaches the boot> prompt, then reaches the "entry point at..." and crashes (machine

Re: Sound is good on OpenBSD

2020-04-28 Thread Aisha Tammy
On 4/28/20 9:22 AM, David Demelier wrote: > Le 28/04/2020 à 14:01, Yury Grebenkin a écrit : >> OpenBSD gives a better sound experience on my machine than several >> Linux distributions I have used and FreeBSD. Just want to say thank >> you to all the people involved and state the fact that

Re: Sound is good on OpenBSD

2020-04-28 Thread David Demelier
Le 28/04/2020 à 14:01, Yury Grebenkin a écrit : OpenBSD gives a better sound experience on my machine than several Linux distributions I have used and FreeBSD. Just want to say thank you to all the people involved and state the fact that OpenBSD does make a difference. The audio stack is

Re: More than 16 partitions

2020-04-28 Thread Aaron Mason
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:41 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Amelia A Lewis wrote: > > > So, and I recognize that the answer might reasonably be "go read more > > code and figure it out yourself," a question for Theo and others if you > > have a moment: why couldn't an arch expand past sixteen? It

Re: macbook - uvideo0: can't find video interface

2020-04-28 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 28 07:52:59, rgci...@disroot.org wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 05:12:59PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > Thanks for the clue, video0 at uvideo0 is detected again > > (dmesg below; NB: a different macbook with the same symptom). > > > > note > you're now showing an amd64 kernel log > your

Re: Sound is good on OpenBSD

2020-04-28 Thread Consus
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:01:15PM +0300, Yury Grebenkin wrote: > OpenBSD gives a better sound experience on my machine than several > Linux distributions I have used and FreeBSD. Just want to say thank > you to all the people involved and state the fact that OpenBSD does > make a difference.

Sound is good on OpenBSD

2020-04-28 Thread Yury Grebenkin
OpenBSD gives a better sound experience on my machine than several Linux distributions I have used and FreeBSD. Just want to say thank you to all the people involved and state the fact that OpenBSD does make a difference. -- Yury https://yvgrebenkin.wordpress.com/