Hey Sven, sorry just wondering have you tried running an alternate OS and or memtest x86 to see if the computer CPU memory is behaving its self ?
also if it is an intel raid controller it usually has about 3 differentnt settings (and alters the controllers firmware to present different hardware to the os (legacy--->raid--> AHCI -->Enhanced) Hope this helps On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 20:56, Sven F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear readers, > > I found a computer which behaves oddly. > Only EFI boot is supported, I usually go the MBR way. > The bios looks like a classic AMibios Intel stuff. > The cpu is intel and there's an intel HD5500 graphic card > ( trying to extract proper dmesg fails so far ) > > When booting 6.8 basic amd64 installation the video > signal is completely lost and network too ( suspect crash ) > > I tried to `set db_console 1` and change video mode > with machine video before booting, and entering > `boot dump` blindly ( video off ) > but after rebooting in bsd.rd /var/ has no dmesg.anything > or some log > > I think the last line of boot i see is 'softraid0' > > There's probably a few tricks I should try to get the actual > message, I will do my best to extract the (bsd.rd) dmesg now and post it as > a reply ( and try boot current ) > > Is there some boot option i can use or something i can do > to extract the errors ? ( i do not see com ports anywhere either ) > > Thank you for reading. > -- > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do > > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
