On 2024/07/22 21:04, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 22 15:08:15, stu.li...@spacehopper.org wrote: > > On 2024-07-22, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > > > I am trying to boot current/amd64 on this HP laptop from USB stick. > > > > > > Disabling the "secure boot" in BIOS, so that something else > > > than the preinstalled windows is even allowed to boot, > > > and choosing USB Flash Disk as the boot source, > > > I see the usual > > > > > > Using drive 0, partition 3 > > > > > > etc, up to > > > > > > boot> > > > > > > There, the rotating slash either stops and nothing else happens, > > > or the machine reboots after the first number in > > > > > > booting hd0a:/bsd 12345678 + [reboot] > > > > > > This happens with both bsd and bsd.rd. > > > > > > The USB stick holds a full current/amd64 installation > > > which I regularly boot on various amd64 machines, > > > so I don;t suppose that is the problem. > > > > > > Any clues please? > > > > Some things you could perhaps try - > > Thanks for the hints. > > > - does a 7.5 kernel boot? 7.4? (7.3, [..]?) > > No. The same happens with 7.5, 7.4 and 7.3; > also, the current/amd64 I was trying was about two weeks old, > but the same happens with the currently current current. > > > - "machine mem" output might be useful to someone looking at this > > Sorry for the jpeg (attached), no cereal here.
so that's approx 19GB of mail sending to all misc subscribers, plus the people who you want to see this might well be reading mail somewhere that image attachments are at least a slight pain. typing is not so hard, so we can at least do something about the second part of that: Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 631KB Region 1: type 2 at 0x9dc00 for 9KB Region 2: type 2 at 0xe0000 for 128KB Region 3: type 1 at 0x100000 for 3058172KB Region 4: type 2 at 0xbab7f000 for 19456KB Region 5: type 4 at 0xbbe7f000 for 1024KB Region 6: type 3 at 0xbbf7f000 for 512KB Region 7: type 1 at 0xbbfff000 for 4KB Region 8: type 2 at 0xbc000000 for 16384KB Region 9: type 2 at 0xbd000000 for 34816KB Region 10: type 2 at 0xe0000000 for 262144KB Region 11: type 2 at 0xfec00000 for 4KB Region 12: type 2 at 0xfed10000 for 16KB Region 13: type 2 at 0xfed18000 for 4KB Region 14: type 2 at 0xfed19000 for 4KB Region 15: type 2 at 0xfed1c000 for 16KB Region 16: type 2 at 0xfee00000 for 4KB Region 17: type 2 at 0xff800000 for 8192KB Region 18: type 1 at 0x100000000 for 1030144KB Low ram: 631KB High ram: 3058172KB Total free memory: 4088951KB
