On Oct 2, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <pl...@mindless.com> wrote: > Hi. I just got several Gigabyte GX-BXBT-1900 micro-micro systems. I've been > trying to install NetBSD on them with no luck. I've tried both the 6.1.5 and > 7.0 iso files from the FTP server, as well as a 7.0 installation on a 256GB > thumb drive. Neither works. > > The kernel boots up until the point where it tries to find the root > filesystem. In all cases, it just sits at the prompt. It looks to me like > the system isn't accepting input from the USB keyboard and can see neither > the thumb drive nor the USB CD-ROM. Could it be possible that the USB > chipset on this machine isn't supported? > > One of the things I tried is to boot the thumb drive and CD-ROM (in the same > external USB player) on an older system. Both boot without any trouble.
Can you boot it with a serial console instead of a keyboard/monitor? Will it boot off the network? I’m not sure if it has these capabilities, but they might be alternatives to look into. Cheers, Brook
