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

2017-11-20 Thread Andy Ruhl 
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Stephen Borrill
 wrote:
> Have I missed some context here? It is not complex to boot a BIOS-based
> machine from a GPT disk. That's what gpt biosboot is for. I've been using
> even on NetBSD 5 on a 4TB hardware RAID array (backported the changes from
> newer NetBSD to -5).

Yeah, you probably did.

I don't think anyone thinks the functionality doesn't exist.

My concern was that it was hard for me, as a new person to "large"
disks on NetBSD, to understand where to start.

There is conflicting information, or a complete lack of it depending
on where you look.

Michael's reply was exactly what I needed, and as far as I can tell,
that particular information doesn't exist anywhere else in "guide"
form (but please correct me if I'm wrong).

Again, this is in the context of a new person asking "where do I start".

When I searched on NetBSD and large disks, I came up with a page
talking about 137GB as a "large" disk:

https://www.netbsd.org/about/features.html

I can't find anywhere in the guide docs that discuss GPT or UEFI. It's
all over the place if I search but it's generally a little old. The
GPT stuff I found didn't point out that you don't have to manually
create a wedge anymore for instance.

Andy

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

2017-11-20 Thread Stephen Borrill 

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Michael van Elst wrote:

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 page about "using-large-disks" is
useful; could you perhaps be inspired to write a follow-on about the
above theme?


For BIOS based machines this is complex


Have I missed some context here? It is not complex to boot a BIOS-based 
machine from a GPT disk. That's what gpt biosboot is for. I've been using 
even on NetBSD 5 on a 4TB hardware RAID array (backported the 
changes from newer NetBSD to -5).


--
Stephen

Re: NetBSD's Blog Unreachable

2017-11-20 Thread Leonardo Taccari 
Hello Yass,

Yass Amed writes:
> [...]
> It seems that NetBSD's Blog (under "Community" menu item) is unreachable.
> The link points to a 'dead' server at https://netbsd.fi/ instead of the
> previous (still working) server https://blog.netbsd.org/.
> [...]

Nice catch! I have just changed the `Community -> Blogs' entry in
navbar to just `Community -> Blog' and changed the anchor to
blog.NetBSD.org instead of netbsd.fi as you've proposed.

I think that actually netbsd.fi isn't "dead" but just had some
problems in the latest weeks, probably Kim will shed some light!
(it's a nice resource for NetBSD related news and it's still linked
in `NetBSD Gallery' page, at least, under `News about NetBSD and
the *BSDs in general' section).


Thank you very much for reporting that!

NetBSD's Blog Unreachable

2017-11-20 Thread Yass Amed 
Greetings,


It seems that NetBSD's Blog (under "Community" menu item) is unreachable.
The link points to a 'dead' server at https://netbsd.fi/ instead of the
previous (still working) server https://blog.netbsd.org/.


Thanks,

Yass