Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
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

DragonFly on VirtualBox with EFI boot - Just Works

2018-03-09 Thread Aaron LI
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 22:13:15 +0800 Aaron LI wrote: > > I may try to install DFly on a VirtualBox machine with EFI, and will report > back. Hello, So I just tried install DFly (v5.0.0-release) on a VirtualBox machine (host: Debian Linux amd64 testing) with *EFI* turned on.

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-09 Thread Aaron LI
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

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-09 Thread karu.pruun
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Pierre Abbat <p...@leaf.dragonflybsd.org> 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 settin

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
ementation works with DFly's > EFI boot loader... 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? Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-02 Thread Aaron LI
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

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
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.,

Re: DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-01 Thread Aaron LI
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

DragonFly on VirtualBox

2018-03-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
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 it from the ISO file and ran boot0cfg. It looks like all files