Re: NetBSD v4.0 and v5.0 will not boot

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:28:38PM +0200, Ib-Michael Martinsen wrote:
> Dear list readers.
> 
> The last days I have been trying to upgrade my NetBSD v3/i386
> installation to both v4.0.1 and v5.0, so far without any luck.
> The problem seems to be that the system is hanging during boot.
> 
> To avoid destroying my current v3.0 system I have created directories
> /NetBSD40 and /NetBSD50 and unpacked v4.0 and v50 binaries to the
> respective directories. My intention was to boot on a v4 or v5 kernel,
> chroot to the /NetBSDxx directory and verify, that I could run X, a
> browser and sending and receiving mail before I made a permanent
> upgrade (i.e. switching the current /usr, /var, .., etc. with the
> /NetBSD50/usr, /NetBSD50/var, ... in single user mode).
> 
> Unfortunately I am unable to get a command prompt when booting on a v4
> or v5 kernel. I have tried all available v4.0 kernels and the GENERIC
> v5.0 kernel, they all behave the same. The behaviour is also the same
> regardless of I boot in single or multi user mode (allthough
> rc.conf=YES has not yet been defined).
> 
> I am unsure of the root cause to this problem:
> Could it have something to do with my usage of a raid file system or
> of a newly added USB PCI-card and additional wireless Logitech MX5000
> keyboard and mouse (used in parallel with a standard PS/2 keyboard
> and mouse)? Or is it something else?

It could be related to acpi. Could you try booting without acpi ?
boot -2 should do it.  You need an up to date /boot for that to work though.
Another way of doing it is:
boot -c
disable acpi
quit

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