On Wednesday 25 April 2018 12:40:32 Tom Spindler (moof) wrote: > > I'm a little late in trying 8.0 ... but I just tried to install 8.0 RC1 on a > > Dell Optiplex 745. During boot it blanks the display and nothing can > > be seen on the display from that point on. > > IIRC, I had similar issues with going from 6.x to 7.x; in my /etc/boot.cfg > I had to change the entries along the lines of > > menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;vesa 1024x768x8;boot netbsd > menu=Drop to boot prompt:vesa 1024x768x8;prompt > > Alternately, "vesa on" supposedly works, but I never got that to work > consistently.
None of that worked for me. the "vesa on" mode blanked the display faster than the regular boot. I tried a number of the vesa settings to no avail. I also tried 8.0 RC1 on a Dell 990 and it wouldn't even boot. 6.1.5 is running just great on that machine, but I couldn't get the 8.0 RC1 to even find a root device when booting the amd64 8.0 RC1. *sigh* --Phil
