Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-07 Thread Carsten Mattner
Has anyone successfully installed DragonFly as a single boot system on an EFI Mac?

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-19 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: Has anyone successfully installed DragonFly as a single boot system on an EFI Mac? I'd be interested in this too. I failed: got

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-20 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:09 PM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Carsten Mattner

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-22 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:28 AM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks again, partial success so far: could get refit working but apparently refit does not boot dfly, or at least not yet. I made two partitions for dfly as described in the README on the live cd, a ufs partition for

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-03-23 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:05 AM, peeter (must) karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks again, partial success so far: could get refit working but apparently refit does not boot dfly, or at least not yet. I made two partitions for dfly as described in the README on the live cd, a ufs partition for

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting passwords

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Raimundo Santos rait...@gmail.com wrote: Well... you are very lucky! :) Always have identical spare mainboard just in case? Try to boot without the HDD and see what happens. That worked see the other reply.

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Edward M martinezedward...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/03/2012 02:15 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since that time the machine won't leave the BIOS startup phase (POST?). Took out the CMOS battery for a minute to no avail

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting passwords

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Normally this issue can be fixed by setting the BIOS to access the disk in LBA or LARGE mode. The problem is due to a bug in the BIOS's attempt to interpret the slice table in CHS mode instead of

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip. : :It did of course hang when I tried to DEL into the BIOS. :What worked is pulling out the sata connector, entering :the BIOS putting it back and then detecting the

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip. : :It did of course hang when I tried to DEL into the BIOS. :What worked is pulling out

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :Thanks Matt for the explanation and tip

Re: questions from FreeBSD user

2012-07-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: For now i am FreeBSD user, but when i read what are proposed by developers(!) for FreeBSD i clearly understand i will need something else. Which FreeBSD plans do you find worrisome?

Re: questions from FreeBSD user

2012-07-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: For now i am FreeBSD user, but when i read what are proposed by developers(!) for FreeBSD i clearly understand i will need something else. Which FreeBSD plans do you find worrisome? more and more user

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell sruss...@prodigeinfo.qc.ca wrote: John Marino a écrit : On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-21 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st wrote: On 7/20/2012 20:53, Carsten Mattner wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches (if you have the skills) would possibly be a better

Re: What's the status of the USB stack port?

2012-09-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Markus Pfeiffer markus.pfeif...@morphism.de wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:44:47PM +1000, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi all, Last time I heard there was someone working on the port. I'd be willing to test (my dragonfly installation is long