Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread Michael van Elst
swiftgri...@gmail.com (Swift Griggs) writes: >I wonder what happened in his case. I can tell he's re-using the same box >and drive from his FreeBSD install, but I've done that many times and >never had a problem (other than being annoyed at 'dk' devices showing up). >I just wipe the disk and st

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > I always dd nulls to a disk that was used for another OS before starting > a new install. Same here. > Specifically I have had issues installing NetBSD to a drive that had > Linux (Red Hat) on it. It's been a while but I think that the behaviour

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread Andrei M.
Mike Larabel of Phoronix had the same problem with installation of NetBSD 7.0 a year ago: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BSD-Linux-Late-2015 In fact I experienced it last year myself, but some good guy told me to change the BIOS settings for HD from SATA to legacy/IDE and afte

Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 10:00:49 -0600 (MDT) Swift Griggs wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=trying-8-bsds&num=2 > > I wonder what happened in his case. I can tell he's re-using the same > box and drive from his FreeBSD install, but I've done that many times > and never had a

Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread Swift Griggs
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=trying-8-bsds&num=2 I wonder what happened in his case. I can tell he's re-using the same box and drive from his FreeBSD install, but I've done that many times and never had a problem (other than being annoyed at 'dk' devices showing up). I ju