Re: NetBSD installer failure

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Al Zick wrote:
> http://datazap.net/sites/14/hang.jpg Does anyone have any ideas as to 
> why?

It's hard to say, but it looks like it's failing right before the real 
root file system is mounted. Did you have them try without SMP and ACPI ? 
You can disable those from the bootloader.

Sometimes it's useful to setup NetBSD on a USB drive (ie.. do a full 
installation etc..). Then I put some alternate kernels on the file system 
and one of them I'll have a full debug kernel built that I can boot up on 
and (hopefully) get an idea of why/where-exactly the failure is occurring. 
You could probably do that and create a 2G or 4G image for your data 
center hands & eyes folks to rawrite to a USB drive and boot up the server 
on. Then FTP / dropbox it to them etc...

-Swift