Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
Hey everyone, I'm having a few problems when trying to install 1.12 on a Macbook Pro. So it loads off the DVD (I didn't have any CDs spare but it seems to work fine) and, after a bit, a prompt comes up so I can choose what kernel I want. So here is the first problem. If I choose option 1

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, March 9, 2008 2:58 pm, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: Hey everyone, I'm having a few problems when trying to install 1.12 on a Macbook Pro. So it loads off the DVD (I didn't have any CDs spare but it seems to work fine) and, after a bit, a prompt comes up so I can choose what kernel I

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 9 Mar 2008, at 19:26, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I recall Yonetani was working on Macbook support, but I don't think we ever reached an installable point. It just seems so close... It would be neat if we did. Of course it would :)

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Bill Hacker
Christopher Rawnsley wrote: Hey everyone, I'm having a few problems when trying to install 1.12 on a Macbook Pro. So it loads off the DVD (I didn't have any CDs spare but it seems to work fine) and, after a bit, a prompt comes up so I can choose what kernel I want. So here is the first

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 9 Mar 2008, at 19:55, Bill Hacker wrote: What else has had its fingers on that disk and its label prior to the attempt? Well I used the Boot Camp Assistant (basically a partitioner) from within Mac OS X which resized my disk for installing Windows. So it formatted it with FAT32 but I

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Bill Hacker
Christopher Rawnsley wrote: On 9 Mar 2008, at 19:55, Bill Hacker wrote: What else has had its fingers on that disk and its label prior to the attempt? Well I used the Boot Camp Assistant (basically a partitioner) from within Mac OS X which resized my disk for installing Windows. So it

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-09 Thread Bill Hacker
Kris Kennaway wrote: Adrian Michael Nida wrote: SnipAndRearrange/ The benchmark at http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png SnipAndRearrange/ Is measuring 1.8. We're at 1.12 now. I'm sure an updated graph has a different trend. Take it upon yourself to redo the benchmark.

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Bill Hacker wrote: Kris, w/r the http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html page The link to the MySQL config: http://www.freebsd.org/%7Ekris/scaling/my.cnf ...gives me a 404. Thanks, fixed. I don't have even a Quad-core I can spare from duty at the moment, but I'd like to at

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 9 Mar 2008, at 21:10, Bill Hacker wrote: I would actually recommend an external HDD on FW-800 or USB2. I don't have one of those handy at the moment so I think I'll keep on trying without for the moment. Apple marches to the beat of a whole different orchestra w/r disk layout labels,

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread YONETANI Tomokazu
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:26:28PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I recall Yonetani was working on Macbook support, but I don't think we ever reached an installable point. It would be neat if we did. Last time I tried, it seemed that I managed to smash the partition table when I manually

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-09 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
On 9 Mar 2008, at 23:18, Chris Turner wrote: Disclaimer: I don't have a macbook.. (or any intel mac) ad4 : I've seen this as the first HDD on an Acer notebook, a shuttle xPC, and a tyan server board - In my case it had to do with both the presence of a legacy parallel ATA controller