Good morning! On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 04:23:43AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > > My guess is that a graphics driver is being attached, which goes badly. > > I recently booted a 11.0 install image on USB on two ~5 year old Dell > > systems and a 2010 imac (for some reason old computers flow to me for > > fixing up from various people), and on at least one, attached radeon > > broke it. I ended up dropping to boot menu, and "userconf disable > > radeon*". That was annoying, so I disabled radeon and similar in > > GENERIC and rebuilt install media and have been using that. > > > > On another old dell: > > > > i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (rev. 0x02) > > Intel Core 6G Gaussian Mixture Model (miscellaneous system) at pci0 dev 8 > > function 0 not configured > > > > and that works. Try "disable i916drmkms*". See boot(8). > > > So, I tried selecting the last option, then I entered "userconf disable > i916drmkms", then I entered "boot", and I got the same results: a horizontal > line of numbers, then a black screen. Was that what you were suggesting that > I do? Sorry, I have no experience with booting BSD this way. > > One thing that I did notice, though, is that it is engaging the screen in > some manner when it's black, because no matter how long I leave it sitting, > the monitor only tells me "Entering Power Saver Mode" when I power off the > computer.
It might be related to https://gnats.netbsd.org/55478 Have you tried changing BIOS mode from UEFI to Legacy(MBR) ? Best
