Trying to install it on a Thinkpad

[Satyajit Ranjeev]

Thanks Peeter. The installer will be a good place to start. I will
give a shout at the dev mailing list to see if someone else is working
on it.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 2:29 PM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I should clarify that I'm not a developer, I'm a user who's interested in
> the said feature. I guess you should get in contact with the development
> team before embarking on the project, perhaps try the irc channel?
>
> If I was you I'd start by getting familiar with the installer
>
> src/usr.sbin/installer
>
> Also, there may have been emails on this in the past, try googling the email
> list with 'gpt' etc.
>
> If I may suggest another project to work on: get GL acceleration working
> under Weston/Wayland.
>
> In general though I suppose it'd be a good idea to update the list that
> Tomohiro Kusumi mentioned:
>
> https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/ProjectsPage/
>
> Cheers
>
> Peeter
>
> --
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev <s at ranjeev.in> wrote:
>>
>> I'm definitely interested. Any particular advice on getting started?
>>
>> On a side note now I have DragonFly BSD on my laptop.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2016 10:59 AM, "karu.pruun" <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> DragonFly has UEFI boot support, but it's not integrated in the installer
>>> yet. This could be a project to work on if you're interested.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Peeter
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev <s at ranjeev.in> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot, I stumbled on it as well. I'm still in the installation
>>>> process. I need to use EFI boot method to get it working on NVME. But
>>>> excited that the disk is loading.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:25 PM, PeerCorps Trust Fund
>>>> <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:
>>>> > This might be helpful:
>>>> >
>>>> > "We now have a NVMe driver (PCIe SSDs). It currently must be kldloaded
>>>> > with
>>>> > nvme_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf."
>>>> >
>>>> > https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release46/
>>>> >
>>>> > My guess would be it is not visible at install time because of that.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 09/09/2016 11:08 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I am trying to install the latest snapshot on my work laptop. Its a
>>>> >> Thinkpad T460s. Its got a NVME SSD. When I come to the disk selection
>>>> >> screen the SSD is not listed. Has anyone had similar problems?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> satran
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>