Re: kern/46100: NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 iso boots fine, but fail out on some laptops

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46100; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46100: NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 iso boots fine, but fail out on 
some laptops
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:23:38 +0100

 On Feb 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > You should have made it clear in the PR.
 >=20
 > Now, if sd0a is the right device, there's still something I don't
 > understand. sd0 is not a cdrom device; from what did you boot ?
 > an external usb cdrom drive ?
 
 Yes, it's a "netbook", so it has no internal cdrom.=20
 I had to use Jared D. McNeill mkmemstick.sh to create a NetBSD 5.1.2 & a =
 NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 USB-stick.
 
 NetBSD 5.1.2 works (I could complete a full installation), but the =
 NetBSD 6.0_BETA halts before the boot finishes (as shown in the =
 "cut-n-pasted" dmesg).=