Re: NetBSD vs. Dell XPS 1645 I7-720QM

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> It was time to replace the old laptop as it became unreliable after four 
> years 
> of hard work. The new laptop arrived a few days ago and naturally I tried to 
> get NetBSD to run on it. The system is a Dell XPS Studio 1645, I7-720QM, 6GB 
> memory, ATI HD4670 1GB and Windows 7 pre-installed. The NTFS partition was 
> reduced using GParted. Has anyone NetBSD running on this system and if so, 
> which kernel and configuration was required? NetBSD-5.0.2 doesn't boot and 
> NetBSD-current makes it to the point of trying to mount the root device. At 
> this point neither internal nor USB keyboard work. Any help will be very much 
> appreciated.

So, you e.g. booted your laptop from a NetBSD install CD? Then installed,
and now on reboot your root device isn't seen? Any chance of the dmesg from
the install CD? or did you do something else?

Cheers,

Patrick