Re: fail to boot snapshot 5.5 on MBPro8,2 - solved, X also working.
short update / hint: if for the very first time after the install the system does not boot, go to a running system and try to configure the 55 bsd kernel: config -o bsd.fix -e bsd and remove the radeondrm module (find and disable are your friends, type help at the UKC prompt). Then boot with boot hd0a:/bsd.fix. rgds, Volker Von: Volker Nowarra volker.nowa...@me.com Betreff: Aw: fail to boot snapshot 5.5 on MBPro8,2 - solved, X also working. Datum: 10. Februar 2014 00:07:56 MEZ An: tech@openbsd.org Hi, Reference: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=139175497630924w=4 bsd55 does not start per default from snapshots. Thx to Joerg, I could now successfully boot MBPro 8,2 with snapshot (bsd55-beta). Main topic is to get the radeondrm firmware, my procedure was this: I booted bsd55.rd, and installed from http (CDROM not recognized, internal wireless not working, but bge0 works). Then get src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz installed, and cvs up to -current. Also installed ports and xenocara, and updated to -current, as in Building the System from Source (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html). Then update the radeon firmware as described in following current (http://openbsd.org/faq/current.html). I had to use fw_update. To use pkg_add, the environment variable should point to the right direction. pkg_add'd icewm and firefox, started X with icewm, all works well. DMESG: OpenBSD 5.5-beta (GENERIC) #243: Wed Feb 5 14:48:36 MST 2014 t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC RTC BIOS diagnostic error ffclock_battery,ROM_cksum,config_unit,memory_size,fixed_disk,invalid_time real mem = 4185079808 (3991MB) avail mem = 4065501184 (3877MB) mainbus0 at root ...
Re: fail to boot snapshot 5.5 on MBPro8,2
Hi, Am 05.02.2014 um 15:08 schrieb Sven-Volker Nowarra peb.nowa...@bluewin.ch: I tried to install 5.5 snapshots from 2. Feb and 3. Feb onto my laptop MacBook Pro 8,2 - both failed. Then used an older snapshot from spacehopper.org/mirrmon, which claimed to be 12 days old. Failed as well. MacBook Pro runs perfectly well with 5.4, and 5.5 bsd.rd lets me go into the installation. After a reboot (bsd.mp), the system hangs after the line where the disk should be mounted, and the nvram/clock message normally appears (actually before going into userland). The screen then turns shortly but steady into white/grey, so the blue kernel lines can't be read anymore. I then tried to boot with bsd -c, with an external USB keyboard - but it hangs as well (as such no difference to the internal keyboard). Looks like I have two prompts (underlines) on the screen, that are flickering. I see the same issue with my MacBook Air 4,2 With this status I cannot provide any dmesg:-( You may at least provide the dmesg from the working 5.4 bsd and the snapshot bsd.rd. Regards, Joerg The first line after boot -c would show the booting hd0a:bsd: 7635180+1660460+1097336... line, and then entry point at The kernels blue lines would say: kbc: cmd word write error [ using 926384 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University ... OpenBSD 5.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #284: Mon Feb 3 07:57:32 MST 2014 t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP RTC BIOS diagnostic error ffclock_battery,ROM_cksum,config_unit,memory_size,fixed_disk,invalid_time real mem = 4185079808 (3991MB) avail mem = 4065452032 (3877MB) User Kernel Config UKC The errors on RTC BIOS line also appears in the fully functional 5.4 version. But I couldn't see the line kbc: cmd word write error in other dmesgs on OpenBSD-tech. As mentioned, no dmesg possible, anyone else with MBPro issue? Any idea were to get old snapshots? I could try to build the kernel from scratch, I successfully built 5.4, and building with -current shows same behaviour as snapshots. Any ideas where to go from here? (No serial port obviously). Volker
fail to boot snapshot 5.5 on MBPro8,2
Hi, I tried to install 5.5 snapshots from 2. Feb and 3. Feb onto my laptop MacBook Pro 8,2 - both failed. Then used an older snapshot from spacehopper.org/mirrmon, which claimed to be 12 days old. Failed as well. MacBook Pro runs perfectly well with 5.4, and 5.5 bsd.rd lets me go into the installation. After a reboot (bsd.mp), the system hangs after the line where the disk should be mounted, and the nvram/clock message normally appears (actually before going into userland). The screen then turns shortly but steady into white/grey, so the blue kernel lines can't be read anymore. I then tried to boot with bsd -c, with an external USB keyboard - but it hangs as well (as such no difference to the internal keyboard). Looks like I have two prompts (underlines) on the screen, that are flickering. With this status I cannot provide any dmesg:-( The first line after boot -c would show the booting hd0a:bsd: 7635180+1660460+1097336... line, and then entry point at The kernels blue lines would say: kbc: cmd word write error [ using 926384 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University ... OpenBSD 5.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #284: Mon Feb 3 07:57:32 MST 2014 t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP RTC BIOS diagnostic error ffclock_battery,ROM_cksum,config_unit,memory_size,fixed_disk,invalid_time real mem = 4185079808 (3991MB) avail mem = 4065452032 (3877MB) User Kernel Config UKC The errors on RTC BIOS line also appears in the fully functional 5.4 version. But I couldn't see the line kbc: cmd word write error in other dmesgs on OpenBSD-tech. As mentioned, no dmesg possible, anyone else with MBPro issue? Any idea were to get old snapshots? I could try to build the kernel from scratch, I successfully built 5.4, and building with -current shows same behaviour as snapshots. Any ideas where to go from here? (No serial port obviously). Volker
