At Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:38:27 -0800, "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: unable to boot amd64-uefi-install from USB stick on a MacBook2,1
>
> At Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:56:26 +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> Subject: Re: unable to boot amd64-uefi-install from USB stick on a MacBook2,1
> >
> > Try current first, 8.0 EFI has a lot of known bugs.
>
> Nothing past my old 7.99.5 build works -- well nothing I can find
> anyway. I'm guessing not many people have kept intermediate builds or
> build products from so long ago.
>
> Anyway that's why I guess the problem appeared between 7.99.5 and 8.0
A tiny update:
As a result of a recent macOS update I had the occasion to need to
reboot my main desktop machine, a "Late 2009 iMac 27 inch" ("iMac10,1").
It has 16GB of RAM installed.
So I thought I'd try booting NetBSD on it.
It happily discovers and boots the USB stick I had been trying
unsuccessfully to boot on the macbook.
However it does not seem to discover the root/boot device (though it
does discover all the other USB and firewire attached devices), so I
can't even get it far enough to save the dmesg output (without a video
camera, that is). If I get another chance, or I get otherwise inspired
enough to shut my desktop down again, I may try putting an install image
onto a true USB disk (of the spinning rust variety) and try booting
that, or I could even try burning a CD, though the CDROM on this machine
is rather tired and worn out and is very unreliable.
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