Re: kern/40589 (NetBSD 5.0RC2 won't boot on a dell vostro 400 intel quad core)

[phil <phil%nyarlathotep.crevette.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: phil <phil%nyarlathotep.crevette.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/40589 (NetBSD 5.0RC2 won't boot on a dell vostro 400
 intel quad core)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:09:28 +0200

 Both NetBSD-5.1_RC3 and current still don't work properly on this machine. 
However, I
 recently tried to install a FreeBSD on this machine too ; it hangs the same 
way. Its
 PC-BSD flavour can work, but will kernel panic from time to time if I strike a 
key at the
 bootloader.
 
 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:49:41PM +0000, riz%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > 
 > Synopsis: NetBSD 5.0RC2 won't boot on a dell vostro 400 intel quad core
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: riz%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:49:40 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > If you still have this hardware, can you try NetBSD-5.1_RC3, which is 
 > available at:
 > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1_RC3
 > 
 > ...and if that fails, NetBSD-current?  A recent snapshot can
 > be had here:
 > 
 > http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201006150000Z/amd64/
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >