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 > 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 >
