Re: Some problems moving to new hardware with NetBSD-8/i386

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

Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

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

Re: Some problems moving to new hardware with NetBSD-8/i386

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

Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

> 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

Re: Some problems moving to new hardware with NetBSD-8/i386

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

Some problems moving to new hardware with NetBSD-8/i386

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

Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

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

Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

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.