On Tue, 1 May 2007, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:35:52PM -0500, Aaron Hsu wrote:
> | The threads regarding the Macbook Pro and ACPI support all seem to
> | indicate that they can successfully boot to the install prompt once they
> | enable ACPI through the UKC config prompt, which may or may not be usable
> | until an user inserts a USB keyboard into one of the usb ports (perhaps
> | only one particular port may work). However, this is not working for me.
>
> What OpenBSD version are you using ? You mention 'latest snapshot',
> how old is it ? Some fixes have been made (a couple of months ago) to
> fix typing at the bootprompt.
bootprompt != UKC prompt.
The UKC prompt is still not working, you'll need an ACPI enabled bsd.rd.
-Otto
>
> | Even with an external keyboard in the computer, I am unable to get the
> | system to respond at the UKC prompt. Booting without the prompt also
> | results in a hang at a point which seems different than the hanging points
> | that the other posters are reporting. My computer seems to hang right at
> | the end of booting the kernel, after it prints a line starting with "rd0,
> | ...." and some other kind of information and numbers.
>
> These days, things should 'just work' wrt typing on the boot prompt.
> However, I used a trick to boot an ACPI-enabled bsd.rd (self-compiled)
> to get the thing going. If you still have problems with typing at the
> bootprompt, perhaps you can try this. Just use config(8) on your
> bsd.rd kernel and enable acpi (or build your own with the correct
> options set). Then boot this kernel from a CD you make or over the
> network. You'll have ACPI and no more need to type at the prompt (it's
> a workaround, but it worked for me).
>
> | I also couldn't find any particular threads on this problem which applied
> | particularly to the Macbook Pro. Most of the articles I found were about
> | the Macbook. Am I misreading something?
>
> Please read http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117002194202234&w=2 for
> my post to misc from January. It was specifically about the MacBook
> Pro, since this is the machine I use ;) Since that e-mail, I've moved
> to using rEFIt to dual boot between MacOSX (which I still need,
> unfortunately) and OpenBSD.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
>
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