Re: Installer dies

[Jeff <pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the suggestion. I spent a lot of time poking around in the bios, and could not find any way to enable legacy boot. Did some Internet searching and found an HP support thread indicating that they had removed support for legacy booting for "security reasons". :-(
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Sep 17, 2026, 01:08 by falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost:

> Good morning!
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 04:23:43AM +0200, pacavegano%tutamail.com@localhost wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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> It might be related to https://gnats.netbsd.org/55478
>
> Have you tried changing BIOS mode from UEFI to Legacy(MBR) ?
>
> Best
>