Re: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 7x both i386 and amd64 fail to boot Chromebook HP14

[Petr Topiarz z Mnichovic <petr%topiarz.cz@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/50405; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Petr Topiarz z Mnichovic <petr%topiarz.cz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 7x both
 i386 and amd64 fail to boot Chromebook HP14
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 15:00:09 +0100

 On 4.11.2015 14:55, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-i386/50405; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
 > 	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 7x both i386 and amd64 fail to boot Chromebook HP14
 > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:53:24 -0500
 >
 >   On Nov 4, 11:45am, petr%topiarz.cz@localhost (petr%topiarz.cz@localhost) wrote:
 >   -- Subject: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 7x both i38
 >   
 >   | 1. Chromebook HP 14 has intel CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2955U @ 1.40GHz. Installers 5x,6x, and 7x will stop (and some panic) in the middle of boot of i386. For amd64 it will not even load the kernel.
 >   | 2. If I install it on another machine and then boot on HP chromebook 14, NetBSD version 5.2.3 will boot and run well. Even the X starts ok.
 >   | 3. Other NetBSD versions like 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0 on i386 will never finish booting.
 >   | 4. All amd64 versions (5.2, 6.0, 6.1,7.0) behave as if the CPU was not amd64 capable. (however linux and openbsd 64bit work flawlessly)
 >   | 5. I have screenshots, that can help better. Where can I send it?
 >   | >How-To-Repeat:
 >   | Put installation media into externeal cdrom and start booting chromebook HP 14.
 >   | Put installed netbsd hard disk into chromebook HP 14 and start booting.
 >   
 >   Put them anywhere, and add URL's to them here. If you need space to host them,
 >   let me know.
 >   
 >   christos
 >   
 OK, here they are:
 http://www.openunix.eu/pics/1.JPG
 http://www.openunix.eu/pics/2.JPG
 http://www.openunix.eu/pics/3.JPG
 http://www.openunix.eu/pics/4.JPG