On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 10:52:12 +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> MLH wrote:
> > Boot Options are:
> > Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN
>
> A USB memory stick emulates a hard drive, so USB-HDD should work.
A USB stick formatted like a hard drive *should* always
On 07/11/18 21:58, MLH wrote:
Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to
disklabel-on-RAID1-on-disklabel (which has size limitations).
The mbr boot code is able to account for disklabel-on-raid1, but not for
gpt-on-raid1, see e.g. install/44982.
>
I'm not quite sure I am
Hauke Fath wrote:
> On 07/01/18 22:55, MLH wrote:
> > Things are generally going well but before I actually install a
> > system, one question I have is how to make the configuration
> > bootable.
>
> Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to
> disklabel-on-RAID1-on-diskla
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I remember seeing something in (I believe it was Syslinux) about
formatting/partitioning a USB stick to make it look like an Iomega Zip drive.
Does anybody still make floppy disks, or USB floppy drives? Modern
motherboards have no floppy headers.
In article ,
Hauke Fath wrote:
| >Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to
| >disklabel-on-RAID1-on-disklabel (which has size limitations).
Date:Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:48:01 + (UTC)
From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
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In article ,
Hauke Fath wrote:
>On 07/01/18 22:55, MLH wrote:
>> Things are generally going well but before I actually install a
>> system, one question I have is how to make the configuration
>> bootable.
>
>Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to
>disklabel-on-RAID1-o
On 07/01/18 22:55, MLH wrote:
Things are generally going well but before I actually install a
system, one question I have is how to make the configuration
bootable.
Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to
disklabel-on-RAID1-on-disklabel (which has size limitations).
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:09:27PM -0400, MLH wrote:
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Does CDROM on your boot options include DVD?
>
> Yes. That's what I used to recover my temp boot disk and it works
> great. In a separate message I mentioned I was attempting to build
> a custom Live DVD but I can't f
from MLH:
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Does CDROM on your boot options include DVD?
> Yes. That's what I used to recover my temp boot disk and it works
> great. In a separate message I mentioned I was attempting to build
> a custom Live DVD but I can't figure out the new way of creating
> a boot
MLH wrote:
> Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > MLH wrote:
> > > Boot Options are:
> > > Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN
> >
> > A USB memory stick emulates a hard drive, so USB-HDD should work.
>
> I tried it again and apparently I didn't wait long enough before.
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Does CDROM on your boot options include DVD?
Yes. That's what I used to recover my temp boot disk and it works
great. In a separate message I mentioned I was attempting to build
a custom Live DVD but I can't figure out the new way of creating
a bootable CD/DVD since floppy
from MLH:
> Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > MLH wrote:
> > > Boot Options are:
> > > Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN
> > A USB memory stick emulates a hard drive, so USB-HDD should work.
> I tried it again and apparently I didn't wait long enough before.
> Afte
Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> MLH wrote:
> > Boot Options are:
> > Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN
>
> A USB memory stick emulates a hard drive, so USB-HDD should work.
I tried it again and apparently I didn't wait long enough before.
After about five minutes, i
MLH wrote:
> Boot Options are:
> Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN
A USB memory stick emulates a hard drive, so USB-HDD should work.
--
Andreas Gustafsson, g...@gson.org
My HP Envy laptop boots netbsd in both efi and bios modes, from internal
sata disk and external usb one. Both modes are enabled simultaneously. My
default efi boot is rEFInd, works fine for me. I installed NetBSD-current
on some free space at the end of a gpt disk which already contained a
couple o
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from MLH:
>
> > Scratch the request for usb stick boot. My motherboard doesn't
> > appear to allow it. I'll see if I can build a cd that I can boot
> > off of and transfer to the hard drive for the system.
>
> > Thanks anyway
>
> I thought all modern PC motherboards could
from MLH:
> Scratch the request for usb stick boot. My motherboard doesn't
> appear to allow it. I'll see if I can build a cd that I can boot
> off of and transfer to the hard drive for the system.
> Thanks anyway
I thought all modern PC motherboards could boot from USB stick.
What do you see
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from MLH:
>
> > Needless to say, the EFI drives didn't boot. Not sure why yet.
> > "Booting Operating System" showed then the cursor moved down,
> > possibly attempting to display something, then kept cycling back
> > and from bwtween those two.
>
> My systems have UEFI, b
from MLH:
> Well, not so great. Once the bios detects an EFI boot drive on the
> system, it attempts to load that, regardless of any other non-EFI
> boot drive you specify. So to boot from the temp non-EFI boot drive,
> the EFI drives have to be disconnected until the NetBSD boot loader
> has star
MLH wrote:
> Robert Elz wrote:
> > | The motherboard supposedly autodetects either efi or bios boot so
> > | I thought I might just go with efi first.
> >
> > That's interesting, as it is possible to have both setup... I wonder
> > which it chooses then?
>
> Actually the manual isn't clear :
>
Robert Elz wrote:
> | The motherboard supposedly autodetects either efi or bios boot so
> | I thought I might just go with efi first.
>
> That's interesting, as it is possible to have both setup... I wonder
> which it chooses then?
Actually the manual isn't clear :
- EFI CD/DVD Boot Option
Se
Date:Mon, 2 Jul 2018 21:55:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:m...@goathill.org (MLH)
Message-ID: <20180703015534.336c612...@chopper.goathill.org>
| The motherboard supposedly autodetects either efi or bios boot so
| I thought I might just go with efi first.
That's interesting,
m...@netbsd.org wrote:
> This guide might be helpful for you
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/spz/moderndisk/
The motherboard supposedly autodetects either efi or bios boot so
I thought I might just go with efi first.
The url above plus Robert's and Greg's instructions have me this
far (wd2 shown
m...@netbsd.org wrote:
> This guide might be helpful for you
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/spz/moderndisk/
Thanks!
Date:Sun, 1 Jul 2018 23:16:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:m...@goathill.org (MLH)
Message-ID: <20180702031624.9247212...@chopper.goathill.org>
| Thanks. I lost you regarding how to do the 2nd-stage boot.
It is no different than if you were doing it on disklabel/mbr
partitions
This guide might be helpful for you
https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/spz/moderndisk/
Date:Sun, 1 Jul 2018 16:55:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:m...@goathill.org (MLH)
Message-ID: <20180701205505.af9d712...@chopper.goathill.org>
| Things are generally going well but before I actually install a
| system, one question I have is how to make the configuration
|
Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> m...@goathill.org (MLH) writes:
>
> > I'm looking at exactly how to set up a couple of 4G disks in a
>
> I am not really sure, but some advice:
>
> Generally, the way booting on raid works is that (with a little bit of
> fuzz because I amy be off on details)
>
> it is
m...@goathill.org (MLH) writes:
> I'm looking at exactly how to set up a couple of 4G disks in a
> bootable gpt/raid1 (raidframe, BIOS boot) configuration. I have a
> temporary 80G boot drive I'm currently working from. It is currently
> running NetBSD 8.99.17
>
> I am attempting to follw the ins
> I'm looking at exactly how to set up a couple of 4G disks in a
> bootable gpt/raid1 (raidframe, BIOS boot) configuration. I have a
Ug. I mean 4000G
I'm looking at exactly how to set up a couple of 4G disks in a
bootable gpt/raid1 (raidframe, BIOS boot) configuration. I have a
temporary 80G boot drive I'm currently working from. It is currently
running NetBSD 8.99.17
I am attempting to follw the instrucitons in GPT(8),
https://www.netbsd.org/d
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