Re: Pinebook Pro, NetBSD 9/HEAD not booting

[Matthew Widup <widupmm%proton.me@localhost>]

I had this problem and overcame it; alas I don't recall how.  Perhaps the backlight was off.  Try to blindly log in as root (no password, in a fresh install) and issue "sysctl -w hw.pwmbacklight0.level=50"

If this works, put hw.pwmbacklight0.level in /etc/sysctl.conf

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, November 24th, 2022 at 6:56 PM, Georg Bege <georg@bege.email> wrote:


> Im trying to install NetBSD to an Pinebook Pro, but neither NetBSD-9-aarch64-202211230500Z-pinebook-pro.img.gz nor NetBSD-HEAD-aarch64-202211231210Z-pinebook-pro.img.gz work at all.
> 
> With the 9 image, I don't see a screen and I think it either doesn't
> boot up at all or crashes.
> With the HEAD I see at least the kernel booting (very fast, green
> lines) but then the display gets blank.
> For a while it seems as the device responds as I can control Numlock
> and capslock (which emits LEDs).
> 
> After waiting quite some time it just reboots (kernel panic?).
> Since I've no display I don't know what's going on,
> has anyone tried an image recently which works?