On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 06:03:40 -0700 > From: Andy Ruhl <acr...@gmail.com> > Message-ID: > <cajcb3frzcp42hfag7jhvf1evlkic4+k6hmjd2jlpqwtt0se...@mail.gmail.com> > > | I can't seem to make this motherboard's BIOS disable ACPI. > > The intent was to disable it in NetBSD via the boot prompt - but that > is only possible if your boot.cfg (on the netbsd-7 root) was set up to > give the menu and wait a few seconds for you to interrupt. > > If you don't have a menu entry for booting with ACPI disabled, you should > still be able to boot manually from the boot prompt, just give > netbsd the "-2" option.
Ok, I sort of got past that but it might still be an issue. This is what I've done so far: Booted the Netbsd-8 installer, used the /bin/sh prompt to mount the internal disk and configure a USB network interface. I put an install kernel in the root of the boot disk and rebooted. Interruped the bootloader and booted the install kernel. Before the reboot I unplugged all disks except the root disk, which is partitioned "old style" with separate partitions for /, /usr, /tmp, and /var The installer complained about the disks it couldn't find but eventually I upgraded to netbsd-8. I rebooted and confirmed that it works (other than complaints about the disks which don't exist). ACPI appears to be working. So now it hangs here: http://acruhl.freeshell.org/netbsd_wont_boot2.jpg (last message is kern.module.path=/stand/i386/8.0/modules) I don't know what's happening at this point. Andy (P.S. - For people new to NetBSD, disregard all of this. These are all "old man" problems. Don't be discouraged by this nonsense! Just use amd64 like normal people.)
