My curiosity got the best of me, and I installed anyway... is there
anyway to determine what is causing the lock-up and eliminate it from
within a running NetBSD system?

My problem now is everything is incredibly slow... partitioning
probably took 15 to 30 minutes, generating RSA/DSA keys for SSH took
several minutes, compiling is painfully slow, and I can't get more
than 500KB/s from the network where I've topped 10MB/s in the past
(same hardware setup but with FreeBSD or Linux on the laptop). I tried
OpenBSD 3.8 a while back, too, and speed was just as bad there. What
might cause this? Is there a way for me to find out (and hopefully fix
it)?

Chandler

On 2/17/06, Chandler May <hpxchan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried what you suggested. It didn't seem to recognize "ioapic0",
> since it didn't respond to the command "disable ioapic0", and the boot
> hung at the same place. I rebooted and tried again, this time with
> "disable ioapic", and it responded as follows:
> [ 65] ioapic* disabled
>
> "find ioapic" produced:
> [ 65] ioapic* at mainbus 0 apid -1
>
> It then booted to the friendly blue language selection screen, but the
> built-in keyboard (and I assume the track pad as well) were
> nonfunctional (is this an expected result of disabling ioapic
> altogether?). I had to connect a USB keyboard to interact with it. I
> did not proceed with install because the laptop is of little use to me
> if I must use it with an external keyboard and mouse.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Chandler
>
> On 2/17/06, Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:09:01PM -0600, Chandler May wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a Hewlett-Packard L2000 ("Livestrong Edition") laptop I'd like
> > > to install NetBSD on. I've been able to successfully boot and install
> > > FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, and Linux 2.6.* by turning ACPI support off
> > > at the bootloader, so I suspect doing the same for NetBSD 3.0 will
> > > allow me to boot (however I am not sure how to do this).
> > >
> > > It currently hangs booting immediately after the following line:
> > > ioapic0: enabling
> >
> > Aren't you confusing ACPI and APIC?
> >
> > I think you should be able to boot with the command boot -c, and in the
> > UKC prompt, type "disable ioapic0". and then "exit".
> >
> > Pavel
> >
>