Re: Installer dies

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

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm going to be busy today entertaining an out-of-town visitor, but I may try one or both of these options tomorrow.

Or, I may not. I bought this unit refurbished from a local shop, and I can still return it for another week. I'm thinking that I may trade it in for something that might be more compatible. They also have some older generation HP ProDesk and EliteDesk units, some Dells, and a couple of Lenovos.  Do you (or anyone reading this) have recommendations on which brand(s) and/or generation(s) might be better suited to running NetBSD?
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Sep 18, 2026, 01:49 by rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost:

> On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote:
>
>> 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". :-(
>>
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, Jeff wrote:
>
>> However, trying again with the asterisk did not produce any better results. :-(
>>
>
> See if you can boot the NetBSD kernel using GRUB2. You don't need to install
> Linux on the same disk. Even a live image of a distro will do if you can add a
> GRUB config. entry like:
>
> ```
> menuentry 'NetBSD DIAG' --class netbsd --class bsd --class os $menuentry_id_option 'netbsd-diag' {
>  search --fs-uuid 65b9cab479e274bc --hint hd0,gpt10 --set root
>  insmod ufs
>  set gfxpayload=1920x1200
> #       set root=(hd0,gpt10)
> #       knetbsd /netbsd --root=dk9
>  knetbsd /netbsd
>  boot
> }
> ```
>
> Just change the FS UUID and partition names to suit.
>
> One other thing: does reducing (or adding) RAM get it booting? Does removing
> 8GB work, for instance?
>
> -RVP
>