Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 07 Jun 2016 at 17:05:09 +0100, Jaap Boender wrote: > No, not all Radeons, my old laptop had a Radeon too and thast worked fine. It turned out to be fine for me anyway. My previous kernel was 7.0 (which worked for me), and I wasn't sure if you were talking about a regression, or if 7.0.1

Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread Michael van Elst
ja...@kerguelen.org (Jaap Boender) writes: >Is this at all possible? I understand the bootloader has to go in the >existing EFI partition; can I overwrite that without bothering Windows? EFI allows multiple bootloaders. This isn't the problem. >Does the order of partitions matter (currently

Re: Problem installing NetBSD on VIA EPIA-M920

2016-06-07 Thread coypu
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:46:12PM +0200, Freddy Fisker wrote: > Hi > > I can't install NetBSD 6 or 7 on the VIA Technologies EPIA-M920-20Q Quad > Core E 2.0GHz Mini-ITX Mainboard > > Because of known problems with the OpenChrome video driver, I have used both > with and without a Club-3D Radeon

Problem installing NetBSD on VIA EPIA-M920

2016-06-07 Thread Freddy Fisker
Hi I can't install NetBSD 6 or 7 on the VIA Technologies EPIA-M920-20Q Quad Core E 2.0GHz Mini-ITX Mainboard Because of known problems with the OpenChrome video driver, I have used both with and without a Club-3D Radeon HD5450 2048MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.1 Graphic Card, but this makes no

Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread Jaap Boender
On 07/06/2016 17:03, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2016 at 15:09:31 +, co...@sdf.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:50:31PM +0100, Jaap Boender wrote: First off, 7.0.1 crashes during radeon initialisation (can't find the ROM apparently), but a recent -current snapshot works fine, so

Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 07 Jun 2016 at 15:09:31 +, co...@sdf.org wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:50:31PM +0100, Jaap Boender wrote: > > First off, 7.0.1 crashes during radeon initialisation (can't find the ROM > > apparently), but a recent -current snapshot works fine, so that's easy. > > It is possible

Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread coypu
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:50:31PM +0100, Jaap Boender wrote: > First off, 7.0.1 crashes during radeon initialisation (can't find the ROM > apparently), but a recent -current snapshot works fine, so that's easy. It is possible this was fixed already in -7. I had the same problem in my laptop, but

Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

2016-06-07 Thread Jaap Boender
Hi all, Just got a new laptop (Lenovo Z50) and I've run into problems while trying to get NetBSD onto it. First off, 7.0.1 crashes during radeon initialisation (can't find the ROM apparently), but a recent -current snapshot works fine, so that's easy. The next problem is that it's GPT/EFI