Re: Phoronix 8-way-BSD-install - NetBSD bombed

["Andrei M." <lingvofactory%gmail.com@localhost>]

Mike Larabel of Phoronix had the same problem with installation of
NetBSD 7.0 a year ago:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BSD-Linux-Late-2015

In fact I experienced it last year myself, but some good guy told me
to change the BIOS settings for HD from SATA to legacy/IDE and after
that installation process indeed went on.
Now it's about time for myself to register at Phoronix forum and give
this advice to Larabel, hopefully he well pay more attention to NetBSD
from this moment on.

Andrei

2016-09-09 19:35 GMT+03:00 D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%netbsd.org@localhost>:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 10:00:49 -0600 (MDT)
> Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=trying-8-bsds&num=2
>>
>> I wonder what happened in his case. I can tell he's re-using the same
>> box and drive from his FreeBSD install, but I've done that many times
>> and never had a problem (other than being annoyed at 'dk' devices
>> showing up). I just wipe the disk and start over.
>
> I always dd nulls to a disk that was used for another OS before
> starting a new install.
>
>> Phoronix is a pretty Linux-centric site. I have some suspicions is
>
> Specifically I have had issues installing NetBSD to a drive that had
> Linux (Red Hat) on it.  It's been a while but I think that the
> behaviour he saw is what I saw.  I ran dd to clean everything off the
> drive and then it worked just fine.
>
> In any case I have my doubts about someone who claims to have written
> 10,000 articles over the last twelve years.  For what it's worth:
>
> http://jonimoose.net/2013/moronix-why-amd-wont-take-michael-larabel-seriously-and-you-shouldnt-either/
>
>
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