On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:27:09 -0500 Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Ronny Schneider wrote: > > > Am 15.02.2016 um 15:40 schrieb edward wandasiewicz <[email protected]>: > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >> - it looks more like the various BSD kernels don't like the USB > > >> controller and/or USB drive on your machine. Have you tried > > >> using a different type of USB drive for the install media? It's > > >> also possible there's something in the ACPI tables that coreboot > > >> provides that is confusing the BSDs. > > > > I tried several usb-sticks and sd-cards. Every time the same result: > > it doesn’t work. If i boot NetBSD without ACPI-support the screen > > turns black and stays this way until the machine is shut down. > > > > >> Your logs seem to indicate you also have an eMMC and an SD card. > > >> Have you tried placing the install media on an SD card instead of > > >> USB? > > > > That’s right. The main storage device of this Chromebook is an > > eMMC. Booting from SD card is working if it is a linux. BSD won’t > > start from. The same results as using an usb stick. > > > > >> Another thing you could do is launch the install media with the > > >> same verson of SeaBIOS on QEMU emulating an XHCI drive and SD > > >> drive - just to see if it's possible to reproduce outside of your > > >> particular machine. See below. > > > > Using QEMU it is working flawlessly, wether the SeaBIOS version is > > 1.8, 1.9 or 1.9.1 (which i compiled myself). So it really seems to > > be a problem with the BSDs. > > So, if both XHCI and SD work on QEMU, then I don't have much of a > guess as to what the underlying problem is. It's odd that two > independent hardware systems (xhci and sd) would both experience the > same failure to find the root drive. > > As a long shot, you could compile seabios without CONFIG_SDCARD and > then deploy it on your chromebook - just to see if booting from usb > then works. Similarly, you could try without CONFIG_USB_XHCI to see > if sd somehow then works. I don't have much hope either would help > though. > > The other option would be to follow up with the various BSD developers > to see if you can extract more debug information to narrow down the > cause of the failure. > > -Kevin I opened a bug at the DragonFlyBSD list for bugs and will see if someone can help with this problem: https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2890 Maybe i have to get in touch with the other BSD-devs. Thank you all so far! :-) Best greetings, -- Ronny Schneider _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
