Re: Black screen when booting netbsd-8

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 13:38:58 +0000, Bj?rn Johannesson wrote:

> On Tue, 7/25/17, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: Black screen when booting netbsd-8
>  To: port-hpcsh%netbsd.org@localhost
>  Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 2:35 AM
>  
>  On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 20:21:47 +0000, Bj?rn
>  Johannesson wrote:
>  
>  >> In my "trying netbsd-8 on everything I have" time came to my Jornada
>  >> 690.  However I only get a black screen after hpcboot.  First tried
>  >> with the old build 14 I had on my CF then the new build 16 provided
>  >> by Sevan. Still no luck.
>  >> netbsd-7 works fine though...
>  >> Does any other hpcsh machine work?
>  
>  >Can you try booting with serial console?
>
> Anyways.  It _does_ work when booting with serial console, and after
> booting has finished login prompts shows up on the jornada screen
> which had been totally black until then.
>
> However turning off serial console makes it not work again.  It
> doesn't even get to the point where it lights up the LED in front of
> the keyboard.

Ok, apparently my 690 is still alive.  The larger 2GB CF in it
apparetly didn't survive, but I still had 256MB CF with NetBSD 4 on it :)

I can reproduce the problem with current.  Serial console works (and I
used that to upgrade), but booting with wscons console hangs as you
describe.

-uwe