Kernel modules now report their full, not relative, file path. A quietly useful idea.
I did not know that /usr/src/stand is where /boot comes from. Now we both know.
Some tips on creating/booting a read-only DragonFly system.
Interpreted through a related commit: DragonFly might have a paravirtual SCSI driver soon?
A short explainer on dsynth(1) options.
Adventure(6) the original and Colossal Cave the remake 50 years later.
The installer should always take care of this for you, but if for some reason you need it: formatting a disk with gpt.
Will Senn just started using DragonFly and he wrote up his experience.
Messing with boot0cfg(8) might shorten your boot time. Be careful.
If your X session hangs when exiting the window manager, here’s some suggestions.
Removing pkg detritus. Applies to any system with pkg, including DragonFly. (via)
HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD. (there’s been foreshadowing)
DragonFly now checks both /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.local.d during boot and shutdown, so you don’t have to mix system-installed and local rc scripts.
Based on a sample size of 1, a new DragonFly 6.4 install may have a version of pkg that is confused by config file syntax changes. If that happens to you, the same fix still works.
If you scramble your DragonFly system and can’t boot, here’s some immediate suggestions.
We all could see this coming, but still – most workstations have had serial support for the last… half century?
DragonFly now has support for 19h / Zen3 AMD temperature sensors.