At Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:03:39 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: unable to boot NetBSD-9.99.64-amd64-install.img on a MacBook7,1 > > At Tue, 09 Jun 2020 22:01:41 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: unable to boot NetBSD-9.99.64-amd64-install.img on a MacBook7,1 > > > > Most interestingly if I do some playing at the boot prompt first such > > that there is lots of white text in the small centre area, then try to > > boot, the lines of green dots overwrite the top about 1/3 of the screen > > leaving the lower portion of the white boot loader text still visible: > > > > http://www.planix.ca/~woods/macbookpro-netbsd-boot-fail.jpg > > Same goes for today's snapshot from: > > > https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/202006131940Z/images/NetBSD-9.99.66-amd64-install.img.gz
Would knowing anything about how FreeBSD works on this machine help
figure out why NetBSD doesn't?
I have FreeBSD 12.1 installed and (mostly) working (the nvidia driver
crashes it when starting X).
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Greg A. Woods <[email protected]>
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Planix, Inc. <[email protected]> Avoncote Farms <[email protected]>
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