Try a new snapshot in a few days, things in ACPI land have changed a lot since 4.3.
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0700, Aaron Hsu wrote: > Hey all, > > I have previously been able to run OpenBSD 4.2-current on my Macbook Pro. > It's been a while since I did so, but I wanted to go ahead and reinstall my > machine with 4.3. The biggest change that I expected to affect me was the > automatic enabling of ACPI for the kernel. I thought this would be a good > thing. As it turns out, something must have changed since I last used OpenBSD > to make things troublesome. > > Usually, what I used to do was build my own custom boot only image and change > the bsd.rd kernel to have acpi enabled. However, this didn't seem necessary > for 4.3, and I went ahead and tried to boot. However, it hangs near the end > of the kernel messages with an rd0 line. > > I thought that I heard about someone having trouble with 4.3 hanging on a > Macbook so I tried searching for a solution, but I couldn't find anything > specific. The only things that seem to relate to the stable release after May > 1st are unrelated items. > > One other thing I noted was that someone tried to boot his Macbook using the > bsd.mp kernel, which obviously won't work until the OS is installed. However, > I notice that the dmesg seems a bit different for the MP kernel with some > acpi information put at the top that I don't see in the rd kernel. I am able > to get the mp kernel to boot up to the point where it asks for a root device, > but obviously I can't go past that. > > Anyways, I remembered in a chat that there was possibly a conflict between > apm and acpi, so I went ahead, disabled apm, and this didn't work either. Can > any of you provide some assistance with this matter? Has anyone had success > with the 4.3 release and Core Duo Macbook Pros? I am of course using i386 as > the architecture. > > Am I just missing something obvious? > > - Aaron Hsu
