Re: NetBSD 8.0 Installer Boots to White on White Screen on SS 1

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 19:18, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have an original SS1 (40MB, GX+ video, ROM 1.3) that I am trying to install NetBSD 8.0 from CD-ROM on.  After a little fumbling about for the right boot command from Open Firmware ("boot sd(0,6,3)netbsd" is the right thing for a CD-ROM at SCSI ID 6) and waiting a really long time for the installer kernel to load, I saw the kernel dmesg output scroll by.  Unfortunately, as soon as the installer loaded it was to a white on white screen.  I'm not even sure that the installer loaded correctly.  I could control-C out of it and I assume at that point I've been dumped out to a shell prompt, but it's still white on white.  My next step is to do this over a serial console, which certainly ought to solve things, but I'm curious as to what happened and/or what I could potentially do to fix this.


Eeek - definitely sounds like something is not setup on the framebuffer.

As a data point would you be able to try a HEAD installer image from
http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/ to see if its something
which has already been fixed?

Thanks

David