On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Clay Daniels wrote:>
I have found that the only way it works for me is to use MBR. not
GPT. Anyone have any luck with a GPT installation?
To answer my own question, it makes sense to run NetBSD on MBR as
NetBSD's default partiton manager is apparently fdisk, and I don't
see gpart offered.
Anyway, I have an up and running install of NetBSD on a M2 ssd, using
the whole drive. I have a spinning disk drive that runs Windows 10 &
Freebsd dual-boot using Rod Smith's refind boot manager. This works
ok, but refind does not pick up the mbr drive, as it's strictly uefi.
Oh well, it works for me to boot the ssd with NetBSD by monkeying with
the bios boot order.
So I'm sitting here writing this email from my NetBSD install. I don't
have X installed yet, but I can ssh into my email server and use good
old Alpine from the console.
I have experimented with setting up X, but have not been successful
yet. Simply running startx did not bring up the TWM window manager.
The instructions in the NETBSD Guide, Chap. 9. X, give a different
xinitrc than the one I find pre-installed in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. I
backed up, re-installed NetBSD and I'm going to do more research. The
nice thing for me is I have an extra old computer right next to this
newer one that lets me look up info.
All in all, I'm having fun with this new NetBSD 9.0.