netbsd-7 installation quirks

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

Quirk 1: ACPI regression

I tried to install netbsd-7 (amd64) on a machine with a supermicro 
H8DME-2 board. Both the install kernel and the GENERIC one froze hard 
after

     1. Boot normally
     2. Boot single user
     3. Disable ACPI
     4. Disable ACPI and SMP
     5. Drop to boot prompt

Choose an option; RETURN for default; SPACE to stop countdown.
Option 1 will be chosen in 0 seconds.     
13260944|+628664+624712 [907104+608996]=0x104ab58
Loading /var/db/entropy-file  
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 
2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 7.0_BETA (GENERIC) #1: Mon Sep  1 14:48:19 CEST 2014
      
hf@Hochstuhl:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/7/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 8191 MB
avail memory = 7937 MB
kern.module.path=/stand/amd64/7.0/modules
mainbus0 (root)
ACPI: RSDP 0xf9f00 000014 (v00 ACPIAM)
ACPI: RSDT 0xdffc0000 00003C (v01 S M C  OEMRSDT  10000922 MSFT 
00000097)
ACPI: FACP 0xdffc0200 000084 (v02 S M C  OEMFACP  10000922 MSFT 
00000097)
ACPI: DSDT 0xdffc04a0 004FF8 (v01  H8DM8 H8DM8000 00000000 INTL 
20051117)
ACPI: FACS 0xdffce000 000040
ACPI: APIC 0xdffc0390 0000C6 (v01 S M C  OEMAPIC  10000922 MSFT 
00000097)
ACPI: MCFG 0xdffc0460 00003C (v01 S M C  OEMMCFG  10000922 MSFT 
00000097)
ACPI: OEMB 0xdffce040 0000BA (v01 S M C  SMC_OEM  10000922 MSFT 
00000097)
ACPI: SRAT 0xdffc54a0 000110 (v01 AMD    FAM_F_10 00000002 AMD  
00000001)
ACPI: SSDT 0xdffc55b0 0005F8 (v01 S M C  POWERNOW 00000001 AMD  
00000001)
ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2222, id 
0x40f13
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2222, id 
0x40f13
cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 2: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2222, id 
0x40f13
cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 3: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2222, id 
0x40f13
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 4
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20131218


requiring a reset, breaking into db was not possible.

With acpi disabled, the install kernel got to USB configuration before 
it froze; this could be fixed with a BIOS update.

The machine ran Debian 7 and netbsd-6 (i386) without any problems even 
before the BIOS update, and a fresh netbsd-6 (amd64) installation went 
flawless (apart from sysinst not knowing what to do with a gpt 
partition table ;).


Quirk 2: gpt support

When installing on a gpt(8) partitioned disk, sysinst appears to not 
run 'gpt <disk> biosboot', leaving the system unbootable.

Cheerio,
hauke

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