Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:48:27 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 04/30/14 06:36, Ed Maste wrote: > > On 30 April 2014 01:41, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> So, to make universally bootable install media, we have to switch the > >> default console driver to newcons. This means we need to finish

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/30/14 06:36, Ed Maste wrote: On 30 April 2014 01:41, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: So, to make universally bootable install media, we have to switch the default console driver to newcons. This means we need to finish polishing newcons and need to think about what, exactly, the missing pieces ar

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-30 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 April 2014 01:41, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > So, to make universally bootable install media, we have to switch the > default console driver to newcons. This means we need to finish polishing > newcons and need to think about what, exactly, the missing pieces are to > enable it as the defaul

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-29 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/25/14 06:07, Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:00:13PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: seconded, till now the most bootable case for machines under my hands were happy with no-partition at all (fake MBR with 50k@s4, dd from UFS) I'm working on restoring the MBR, but need some

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-25 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:00:13PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > seconded, till now the most bootable case for machines under my hands were > happy with no-partition at all (fake MBR with 50k@s4, dd from UFS) > I'm working on restoring the MBR, but need some time to test. If I can't get a w

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-25 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Don Lewis wrote: [snip] > >> GPT may not be the best choice here. On a number of, in particular, Lenovo > >> hardware, the BIOS will unconditionally boot with EFI from GPT media. I'm > >> not sure we want to just swap the set of machines on which this will not > >> boot. It p

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-24 Thread Don Lewis
On 24 Apr, Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 07:12:10PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 04/24/14 18:38, Glen Barber wrote: >> >Author: gjb >> >Date: Fri Apr 25 01:38:57 2014 >> >New Revision: 264907 >> >URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264907 >> > >> >Log: >> > Refact

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 07:12:10PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 04/24/14 18:38, Glen Barber wrote: > >Author: gjb > >Date: Fri Apr 25 01:38:57 2014 > >New Revision: 264907 > >URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264907 > > > >Log: > > Refactor make-memstick.sh to avoid creating th

Re: svn commit: r264907 - in head/release: amd64 i386

2014-04-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 04/24/14 18:38, Glen Barber wrote: Author: gjb Date: Fri Apr 25 01:38:57 2014 New Revision: 264907 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264907 Log: Refactor make-memstick.sh to avoid creating the 'dangerously dedicated' partition scheme, reported to cause the memstick.img to