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
ff<clock_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
