Re: Installer dies

[Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost>]

Good morning!
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 04:23:43AM +0200, pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost 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