On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 05:30:15PM +0000, Dr.Boutari wrote: > Thanks for the on point help, and again excuse my ignorance at some parts.See > bottom for a conclusion of my trial results. > > 1.As per your instructions updated my laptop's firmware, but that didnt help. > I still got a shutdown crash on booting from the installer cd.amd64 openbsd > 6.3 > > Last verbose before crash is "root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b'' > So it probably doesnt give any error message at this stage before the sudden > crash. > > (Please ignore the message I sent in my 2nd email. That was actually the > error booting after installation with disable acpi but no disable radeondrm) > > 2.Retry install. Boot -c then disable acpi and continue install successfully > like last time. Did syspatch & fw_update. Restarted still same shutdown crash > if acpi isnt disabled. > Disabling acpi without disabling radeondrm gets the kernel panic with errors > I sent you in the first email+trace+pf. >
Randomly disabling things during boot is a sure way to make things even worse. Good luck. -ml > 3.Since im ok with disabling acpi and radeon permenantly and only running x > with vesa driver and openbox I continued but that still fails and I cant > startx. > > I retraced my steps and found a weird bug. If I issue disable acpi when > loading the installer cd the question : ''Do you expect to run the x window > system?'' Doesnt show up. It took me sometime to notice this, because I was > looking for an error related to xorg. I dont know what configuration is done > behind the scenes with this prompt, but Ill try to setup x manually and see > if it works. > > 4.Moving system to current branch. > Booting bsd.rd gives shutdown crash again. > Rebooted boot bsd.rd -c then disable acpi. Continued system upgrade to latest > snapshot. > Upgrade done. Rebooted without disabling acpi or radeon,shutdown crash > again.Reboot disable acpi only. No more kernel panic like before and the vga > radeon firmware was autoinstalled. > > In conclusion > > 1. Upgrading to current snapshot solved the radeondrm related kernel crash. > > 2.Shutdown crash without any error messages related to acpi persisted along 3 > branches. > > 3. Installer bug skips x window system setup question if you issue disable > acpi when booting from installer cd. > > Thanks. > > Sent from ProtonMail mobile
