Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:56:32AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: it says something along the lines of disk busy, can't be used. This helps a bit (the exact error message would be better). Are your trying to install NetBSD current, or a release ? i am trying to install netbsd 6.1.4 amd64 via

Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread Gerard Lally
At date and time Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:42:47 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: okay, i finally got myself a low end machine at an affordable price. http://hpshopping.in/HP_18-5019il_All-in-One_Desktop_PC the problems started after unpacking the machine. netbsd 6.1.4 (amd64) install cd just won't

Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2014-09-25 14:15, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:56:32AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: it says something along the lines of disk busy, can't be used. This helps a bit (the exact error message would be better). Are your trying to install NetBSD current, or a release ? i am

Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2014-09-25 17:15, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:11:37PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: nothing special, just followed the prompts. I guess you did something special; like use existing partitions when there's no existing parititon. Anyway, the problem is there ... nope,

Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2014-09-25 17:41, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:35:05PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: `fdisk wd0` output below. ... Partition table: 0: GPT Protective MBR (sysid 238) start 1, size 976773167 (476940 MB, Cyls 0/0/2-60801/80/63) PBR is not bootable: Bad

Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

2014-09-25 Thread David Lord
On 25 Sep 2014 at 11:56, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: On 2014-09-25 11:22, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:59:11AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: as i'd mentioned before, the newfs command failed to work during installation process. this doesn't help yeah, figured, that's

bootsplash for netbsd?

2014-09-25 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hello, perhaps my googling skills are bad, but i couldn't find a way to present a bootsplash under netbsd. does it exist? if it does, where may i find more information about it's usage? thanks, -mayuresh

Re: bootsplash for netbsd?

2014-09-25 Thread Roy Bixler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:58:03PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: perhaps my googling skills are bad, but i couldn't find a way to present a bootsplash under netbsd. does it exist? if it does, where may i find more information about it's usage? It is under the GENERIC kernel configuration of

postinstall reference files without /usr/src

2014-09-25 Thread J. Lewis Muir
Hello, NetBSD Users. I built the netbsd-6 CVS branch from source using BUILD-NetBSD from (pkgsrc) sysutils/etcmanage (0.8.2). This creates a directory named releasedir which contains the binary sets and kernel. I then copy these binary set and kernel files to a target machine where I install