Re: Unable to boot to install 8.1 and 9.0 RC2 on amd64 Laptop

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi John,

you don't carry good news, but I don't know how similar our laptops are.

John D. Baker wrote:
> Booting w/o ACPI gets up to detecting the NVIDIA graphics card which isn't
> supported.  It used to just panic later when attaching the console, but
> now at least skips it as unsupported and stays in VGA text mode.

I have ATI. Extra checked when getting this machine: I try to avoid 
nVidia: it works well only with the official binary drivers, so only 
FreeBSD and Linux.


> Following that, it gets as far as detecting the hard disk but then hangs
> while detecting the optical drive.  Random fumbling on the keyboard, or
> a quick press of the power switch usually helps it over this bump.
>
> Booting w/o ACPI and w/o SMP lets it boot all the way to multiuser with
> no user intervention.

So you get actually further than me... no fiddling helpes for me

> At some point during the 9.0 release cycle, the default "/boot.cfg"
> file had the menu options to boot w/o ACPI and w/o ACPI, SMP removed.
> You can still do so by using the option to drop to the boot prompt
> and giving:
>
>    boot: boot /netbsd -12
>
> (-1 disables SMP and -2 disables ACPI)

I tried booting with -12 and this gets me up to:

powernow0 at cpu0: AMD Cool'n'Quiet

Argh!

Some lines before, I read this:

pckbc: cmd word write error

What's that?


Riccardo

PS: I tried booting the OpenBSD 6.6 and that works fine!!
I'll try Alpine Linux later today