Re: port-i386/53192: NetBSD-current hangs at boot on older PC

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/53192; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/53192: NetBSD-current hangs at boot on older PC
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:01:17 +0200

 On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 02:50:00PM +0000, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > I tried to install NetBSD-current/i386 on an older PC (c. 2003 vintage
 > Intel Celeron) because I wanted to try to reproduce an unrelated bug
 > on a uniprocessor system, and all my new machines are multiprocessors.
 > 
 > It hung while booting the kernel on the install media after printing
 > the line "drm: initialized overlay support".  I'm unable to break into
 > ddb using the keyboard.
 > 
 > This is using the onboard Intel graphics.  The board also has an AGP
 > port, but it is not in use.
 
 maybe try to boot -c, and disable drm ?
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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