Re: Booting NetBSD 8 install image on PC Engines apu2d4 via serial console goes blank

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

If I were you, I woiuld have tried the live image with dhcpcd enabled
(+ sshd etc. ), you should be able to get your IP address from the
dhcp server. Just in case, I'd gone with -current as well.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 15:59, J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 8 on a PC Engines apu2d4
>
>   https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2d4.htm
>
> via a USB thumb drive with a NetBSD 8 install image
>
>   https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images/NetBSD-8.0-amd64-install.img.gz
>
> via a serial console where I can get to the welcome screen of the
> installer image
>
>   Welcome to the NetBSD/amd64 8.0 installation image
>   ===============================================================================
>
>   ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) should work on all modern
>   and legacy hardware.  However if you do encounter a problem while booting,
>   try disabling it and report a bug at http://www.NetBSD.org/.
>
>        1. Install NetBSD
>        2. Install NetBSD (no ACPI)
>        3. Install NetBSD (no ACPI, no SMP)
>        4. Drop to boot prompt
>
>   Choose an option; RETURN for default; SPACE to stop countdown.
>   Option 1 will be chosen in 0 seconds.
>
>   Option: [1]:
>
> and I press Space and then Enter to start the install, and it shows
> some numbers with a spinner and then shows
>
>   18010904+813996+1283156 [1191264+821120+12847-
>
>  but then the screen goes blank.
>
> Does anyone know what I can try to get this to work?
>
> I tried the "no ACPI" and "no ACPI, no SMP" install choices, but that
> didn't help.
>
> The apu2d4 says the serial port baud rate is 115200 which is what I
> successfully used to communicate with the apu2d4.  Will the boot image
> kernel work with this baud rate?  If not, is there a way to change it
> by dropping to the boot prompt?  Or do I need to build a custom kernel
> with the baud rate set to 115200?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Lewis



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