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

2016-09-14 Thread Andrei M.
You know, despite all 7.0 has been a HUGE improvement performance-wise on my main laptop (it's the same one since 2010) compared to the 6.x series and whatever was before. I've just upgraded to 7.0.1, let's see how it works. 2016-09-14 18:17 GMT+03:00 : > I feel that for home

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

2016-09-14 Thread coypu
I feel that for home users, -current may be a good choice. netbsd 7.0 is entirely unusable on much of my hardware. desktop was extra bad. no USB3 means USB keyboard interrupts are lost or something, need to boot with ACPI disabled (disables hyperthreading), cannot install from USB, lack of

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

2016-09-13 Thread Andrei M.
2016-09-13 2:48 GMT+03:00 : > No USB3 support on NetBSD-7.0. I had the same. Requires twiddling with > BIOS options to even boot the installer. > Hopefully 7.1 will have merged by release (planned), -current already > does, and it works well. > In my case USB installation (7.0)

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

2016-09-13 Thread Andrei M.
2016-09-12 1:13 GMT+03:00 Michael van Elst : > lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: > >>> That's why it might be interesting to find out why ahcisata fails for you. > >>Are there any kernel debug facilities on the installation distro? > > Not much. You can boot the

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

2016-09-13 Thread coypu
No USB3 support on NetBSD-7.0. I had the same. Requires twiddling with BIOS options to even boot the installer. Hopefully 7.1 will have merged by release (planned), -current already does, and it works well.

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

2016-09-12 Thread David Brownlee
On 11 September 2016 at 23:13, Michael van Elst wrote: > lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: > >>> That's why it might be interesting to find out why ahcisata fails for you. > >>Are there any kernel debug facilities on the installation distro? > > Not much. You can

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

2016-09-11 Thread Michael van Elst
lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: >> That's why it might be interesting to find out why ahcisata fails for you. >Are there any kernel debug facilities on the installation distro? Not much. You can boot the kernel with the -x parameter, but capturing the dmesg output without a serial

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

2016-09-11 Thread Andrei M.
2016-09-11 23:40 GMT+03:00 Michael van Elst : > lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: > >>As I previousy wrote, I switched from SATA to IDE mode in BIOS (after >>which everything started working), so the system no longer recognizes >>ahcisata. Here's the output for my

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

2016-09-11 Thread Michael van Elst
lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: >As I previousy wrote, I switched from SATA to IDE mode in BIOS (after >which everything started working), so the system no longer recognizes >ahcisata. Here's the output for my HD and CD: That's why it might be interesting to find out why ahcisata

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

2016-09-11 Thread Andrei M.
As I previousy wrote, I switched from SATA to IDE mode in BIOS (after which everything started working), so the system no longer recognizes ahcisata. Here's the output for my HD and CD: wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 wd0: wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 465 GB, 969021

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

2016-09-11 Thread Michael van Elst
lingvofact...@gmail.com ("Andrei M.") writes: >No, this happened when the installation CD was loading. I've had >exactly the same problem in the installation process last year, see >attachment. The screenshot shows two SATA devices that couldn't be recognized. one USB umass device. The

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

2016-09-10 Thread Andrei M.
2016-09-10 18:05 GMT+03:00 Andrei M. : > No, this happened when the installation CD was loading. I've had > exactly the same problem in the installation process last year, see > attachment. > > > 2016-09-10 2:49 GMT+03:00 Michael van Elst : >>

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

2016-09-10 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 23:49:30 + (UTC) mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: > But neither should happen during installation. My guess is that > sysinst didn't clean the disk and the screenshot comes from booting > the installed system. Or at least the original boot blocks which may not

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

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=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 after

Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

2016-09-09 Thread Swift Griggs
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=trying-8-bsds=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 just wipe