On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 01:50:35PM +0000, requiem. wrote: > Thank you Crystal for taking the time to offer a recap of the issue. > > > > 0x000000003F7BE000 000040 [ 1.000004] ACPI: ???? > > > 0x00000000FFFD5600 FFFFFFFF (v255 ?????? ???????? FFFFFFFF ???? > > > FFFFFFFF) > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This looks suspicious. > > Is there anything I can do to help explore this? > > > However, I'm not 100% sure that the boot with acpi disabled was > > indeed with the modified bios. The version numbers and strings > > reported by bios0 are the same in both cases, so it would be useful > > if the OP could confirm that the second dmesg is indeed from a boot > > with the modified bios. > > Just want to confirm that the OpenBSD boot with acpi disabled was indeed > with the modified BIOS. I could not find installers for the F.13 BIOS > the netbook arrived with, only for the later (and for this model, final) > F.16 update that the patched BIOS is also based on. I specifically > re-flashed the patched BIOS to test disabling acpi on boot. > > > > I would recommend you start undoing the changes you made one at a > > > time, and tell us which change breaks things. And if it's the > > > hacked/sketchy bios then you might be SOL. It's too hard to > > > diagnose "I changed a bunch of things and now nothing works, please > > > help". > I have done this, and all things point to the BIOS - or to OpenBSD's > handling of it / handling of acpi on boot. > > > The changes he mentions are swapping out the SSD, and replacing the > > wifi card. > > The replacement SSD is very unlikely to be causing these kinds of > > issues. > > OpenBSD boots fine with the SSD installed (on stock BIOS), the BIOS (all > versions - F.13; F.16 patched and unpatched) detects it correctly, BIOS > HDD self-tests pass. >
I am getting lost in this discussion. If you have a scenario where OpenBSD boots fine, then what are we diagnosing here? > > The neither OpenBSD dmesg mentions the atheros chipset based wifi > > card, so I'm assuming that it was removed for testing, (especially > > since it doesn't work with the stock bios, and it was listed in the > > NetBSD dmesg). > > That is indeed the case. I was undoing and re-doing the BIOS patches > for testing, and to get a booting system on the stock F.16 BIOS I > needed to keep the atheros card removed. I can send you a dmesg.booted > from OpenBSD with acpi disabled under the patched BIOS with the atheros > card installed if needed, if it provides more information. >
