Re: NetBSD 7.0 BETA unable to boot

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

On 14 March 2015 at 14:55, Stephan <stephanwib%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an amd64 box which runs great with NetBSD 6.0. However, NetBSD
> 7 BETA does only boot with both ACPI and SMP (this is a single core
> box) disabled.
>
> -If I boot normally, it hangs quite early at the ACPI stuff.
>
> -If I boot with ACPI disabled, the disk controller complains about
> "lost interrupts".
>
> I have attached pictures of both problems as well as the dmesg output
> of NetBSD 6, the output of dmidecode and the output of acpidecode -dt.

On the offchance that it might work have you tried booting a current
kernel on the system? (Its possible there has been a change since 7.0
which 'fixes' the issue, and if so it would make it easier to track
down :)