On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 05:55:11AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> boot -1 -2 (disable SMP, disable ACPI)
>
> 5. It "feels" generally slow. Slower than my 8 or so year old AMD
> system with 1 gig of memory. But I'm not sure if this is real.
I assume these are the cause and effect, why do you need to di
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
> > but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
>
> I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from which
> version etc. Your existing wiki
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Is it with X11, or a more general problem ? we don't have support for
> the kabylake graphics and default to the generic VESA driver, that
> may explain it.
Thanks for the education! This is why I use NetBSD.
I'm not using graphics, it's ju
> Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
> but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from which
version etc. Your existing wiki page about "using-large-disks" is
useful; could you perhaps be inspired
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 05:55:11AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> [...]
>
> It's an MSI H110M Gaming motherboard, Micron 4gig DDR4 memory stick,
> and Intel Celeron dual core G3930 Kaby Lake CPU. I haven't used Intel
> stuff for a long time, it was AMD for years.
kaby lake isn't well supported yet. I
Hello all, I tried searching on this stuff but didn't find much in
regards to NetBSD.
Unfortunately I'm not a developer, so I can't help to fix this
stuff... But I will help in any way I can.
My old machine died. I bought a cheap motherboard/memory/cpu combo
because in the past I found that buyin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Michael van Elst wrote:
> Use the gpt tool to create a GUUID Partition Table and add a ffs partition
> covering all free space, aligned for 4k physical sectors.
>
> - gpt create wd1
> - gpt add -a 4096 -t ffs -l A_unique_name_for_it wd1
>
> On older NetBSD, add the
acr...@gmail.com (Andy Ruhl) writes:
>When I try to use fdisk to create a partition, it won't let me go
>higher than 2TB.
>I tried just using disklabel as well, and I have the same problem.
That's because MBR and BSD disklabel are limited to 2TB for disks
with a logical block size of 512 bytes.