Though generally speaking we should probably be thinking about EFI-first
now, particularly with larger storage capacities causing mass confusion in
legacy-formatted drives. I have several systems whos BIOSes implode
completely if *any* large-capacity drive (2TB or larger) is formatted with
fdisk,
On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 23:58:35 -0500
Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday, 2 March 2018 20.54.08 EST Aaron LI wrote:
> >
> > For EFI boot, you need to make sure that file "/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi" file
> > exists on your EFI partition (i.e., ad0s0), which is the default boot
> > code. If that file doesn'
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> The file is there, but it's /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI, not /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi.
>
> Is there a way in VirtualBox to install DragonFly without EFI?
Yes, BIOS boot seems to be the default setting. If you want EFI boot
you need to tick the box
On Friday, 2 March 2018 20.54.08 EST Aaron LI wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> You're using EFI with VirtualBox to boot the DFly guest, which I haven't
> tried.
>
> For EFI boot, you need to make sure that file "/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi" file
> exists on your EFI partition (i.e., ad0s0), which is the default
On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:32:47 -0500
Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> fdisk -B results in "Missing operating system".
>
> The disk is laid out like this, according to file:
> ad0: boot sector, pt 1 type ee
> ad0s0: boot sector, 32-bit FAT, label "EFI"
> ad0s1: boot sector
> ad0s1a: FFS /boot
> ad0s
On Friday, 2 March 2018 00.24.48 EST Aaron LI wrote:
> I've installed DragonFly BSD (4.8, 5.0, and master) in VirtualBox (on Debian
> Linux) using the installer, and all work well.
>
> Maybe you can try:
>
> 1. Boot into DFly through the ISO
> 2. Find the disk into which DFly is installed, e.g.,
On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:14:21 -0500
Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On my new laptop (which came with Linux) I made two VirtualBoxen and
> installed DragonFly on one and OpenBSD on the other. The OpenBSD install
> worked fine. The DragonFly came up with "Missing operating system" or the
> like. I rebooted i
I have Packer scripts for creating a vagrant box running DragonFly BSD on
VirtualBox here https://github.com/boxcutter/bsd
Maybe they can give you some hints.
/ Rickard
On Mar 2, 2018 03:15, "Pierre Abbat" wrote:
> On my new laptop (which came with Linux) I made two VirtualBoxen and
> installed
