DragonFly 3.8 on Sony VAIO notebook with SSD?
Alex Blake
ablake1 at acm.org
Sat Jun 7 17:08:18 PDT 2014
Thanks! I did as you suggested and tried the DragonFly 3.8 IMG on the notebook today. Worked like a charm. Always believed that a little courage goes a long way. So, rather than beat around the bush much longer, I ventured the install. At first, I got a lot of AHCI timeout errors, but they seemed to resolve on their own.
Eventually, though, I landed at the install menu (hallelujah!) and went all in. The installation seemed to be going well, if a bit slowly, until it bailed with a kernel dump. If I weren’t such a proponent—indeed, an exponent—of DragonFly, the whole affair would’ve been tragic. I’d rather that DragonFly were an owner (rather than renter) on this notebook, but it’ll do while I study for my cert.
Thanks, again.
Alex
On 20140606 at 22:51:45, Justin Sherrill (justin at shiningsilence.com) wrote:
I've installed to a VAIO with success, but I'm sure it was an older
model than what you have. The best way to find out is to try; the
install ISO and IMG files are live, meaning that you can find out if
DragonFly works with it just by booting the image and logging in as
root - it will leave your disk untouched unless you run the installer.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Alex Blake <ablake1 at acm.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone been able to install DragonFly on a Sony VAIO notebook? I lucked
> into the notebook (yay!) from my older brother who installed *unnamed*
> Linux, he said, by disabling native command queuing for the SSD. Is there a
> way, maybe, to do the same thing with DragonFly's installer? The latest
> (3.8) installer is the first to even recognize the SSD and I was hoping to
> make a go of it this time.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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