Re: Installer fails to boot on 2016 macbook retina

[Mäster Lundqvist Machin Snickeri]

well, this is at least something, tho not what I hoped for.

Den fre 29 aug. 2025 kl 17:40 skrev Kirill A. Korinsky <kir...@korins.ky>:
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:13:13 +0200,
> Mäster Lundqvist Machin Snickeri <dlmsage...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been testing OpenBSD over the years on my 2016 Macbook, and it
> > has always failed to boot the installer. Linux works and the other
> > BSDs does boot but with no keyboard support.
> > The installer gets stuck after the NVMe drive
> >
> > I have a photo of the screen uploaded here:
> > https://pasteboard.co/TMpCvUayCM8I.jpg
> >
> > I figure this is hopeless but It would be nice to give this small
> > nice, old and abandoned hardware a second life.
> >
>
> If it is a MacBook with touchpad I had very bad news for you.
>
> All this machines is quite unique, and their support isn't good to say at
> least, because it needs some unique drivers.
>
> See: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
>
> Here my attempt to run OpenBSD on almost similar machine few months ago:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=173313729629501&w=2
>
> and another attempt from Robert:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174697672314597&w=2
>
> --
> wbr, Kirill