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

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From: petr%topiarz.cz@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 7x both
 i386 and amd64 fail to boot Chromebook HP14
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:35:35 +0100

 Dne 2015-11-04 16:50, christos%zoulas.com@localhost napsal:
 > 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, petr%topiarz.cz@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 10:45:44 -0500
 > 
 >  On Nov 4,  3:20pm, petr%topiarz.cz@localhost (Petr Topiarz z Mnichovic) wrote:
 >  -- Subject: Re: port-i386/50405: NetBSD 5x boots and runs, but 6x and 
 > 7x both
 > 
 >  |  >   | 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
 > 
 >  Thank you very much!
 > 
 >  1. Can you type 't' at the debugger prompt to get a backtrace and post 
 > that.
 >  2. Looks like it is ACPI related, can you disable ACPI and try to 
 > boot?
 >  3. You are booting and i386 kernel that's why you are only seeing this 
 > as
 >     an i386. Can you try booting the amd64 kernel from the amd64 port?
 >  4. Can you look if there is a bios upgrade for your machine? It might 
 > fix
 >     the ACPI problem.
 > 
 >  Anyway, the backtrace will be helpful figuring out why it crashes.
 > 
 >  Thanks,
 > 
 >  christos
 
 Christos, as I wrote down, I also tried the amd64 but that would never 
 even load kernel. No success without acpi as well.