Thank you all: To Janne Johansson: >If both OSes show frequent crashing behaviour, it's a very strong >indication of that the machine is at fault.
Win8 works - though I'm getting annoyed w/all the pkgd 3rd party Ads - ^_^. Spent a morning uninstalling useless crap that kept giving me pop-ups asking me to try their apps. Bought my last box 9 years ago, when accessories came in separate CDs - guess That's Life nowadays with a new Windoze Machine. Thus far, the Ubuntu LiveCD (Current) works. OpenBSD LiveCD (obviously) doesen't. I haven't been able to get a LiveUSB of any OS boot yet (I'm looking into it - used UNetbootin and others. Probably will try cook a Linux USB from a LiveCD). I concur that it's the "machine" - due to its being a "new platform" introduced over the Year End Holidays. Most 3rd Gen Intel iSeries on the market (at affordable/attractive px) are i3 and i5s, I nabbed the i7 when I looked around for similar products (found one); and the retailers have all sold out their wares. The Toshiba was mfg in CHN and serviced in Tennessee. Maybe some of their employees are BSD Ussr Group Members; and can tinker with OBSD at work. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janne Johansson Sent: 04/19/13 01:21 AM To: Robert Gray Subject: Re: Follow Up - First Bug Report Submittal - Re: Unable to install OBSD on new Toshiba Laptop 2013/4/19 Robert Gray < robertgra...@gmx.com >Greetings; and sorry to bother: I'm using Win8 - where apps and plugins crash often. After writing the dialogue on paper, jggimi at Daemonforums posted a method to "sh MAKEDEV" in order to mount a USB to the install disk shell session and retrieve the dmesg. My thanks to jggimi. Granted, the crashed environment isn't a stable platfor! m; but the IIRC, the Debubber (ddb>) did allow for shell commands that included the dmesg command. If both OSes show frequent crashing behaviour, it's a very strong indication of that the machine is at fault. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive. Robert Gray +1 310.769.1202 US Pacific Time UTC-8/-7 Daylight Savings
