Re: install/55478: netbsd 9.0 - Installer freezes on macbook pro late 2013

[Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>]

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From: Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	marko.bauhardt%mailbox.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/55478: netbsd 9.0 - Installer freezes on macbook pro late 2013
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 13:05:41 +0300

 Unfortunately, I can't comment much. In case NetBSD asks for a boot
 device, it usually means that it couldn't recognize it. Thus, it is
 very likely that the USB3 controller wasn't recognized/attached for
 some reason (keyboard seems to work on USB2 internally). 51716 was
 submitted during NetBSD7 times, USB3 driver greatly improved since
 then and was enabled by default (wasn't the case in NetBSD 7). I had
 very similar issues with Mac Mini and they were resolved by now. And
 according to messages from that bug, the system was hanging on pre
 NetBSD 8 system (which probably already had USB3 enabled), which is
 not the case for you. Since, there's no easy way to save log messages
 in this situation, maybe making a video probably is also one of the
 solutions to analyze if xhci appeared somewhere in the logs (booting
 with -vx may give more info). If you have some spare thunderbolt 2
 device, you may have more success booting from it as well.
 
 Finally, you can try netbsd-current images to see if the problem still
 persists and how it behaves with the latest code.
 
 
 On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:32 PM Marko Bauhardt
 <marko.bauhardt%mailbox.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR install/55478; it has been noted by GNATS.
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 > From: Marko Bauhardt <marko.bauhardt%mailbox.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>,
 >         install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >         netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: install/55478: netbsd 9.0 - Installer freezes on macbook pro
 >  late 2013
 > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:07:34 +0200 (CEST)
 >
 >  > Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost> hat am 11.07.2020 15:10 geschrieben:
 >
 >  Hi,
 >
 >  >
 >  >  I would recommend trying UEFI image, since I had better results
 >  >  booting from it on Mac Mini 2014 system, in case you haven't tried
 >  >  yet. I had a black screen issue as well in previous releases, though
 >  >  using UEFI image, not a BIOS boot. Don't remember anymore if it was
 >  >  fixed in NetBSD 9 release or current branch.
 >
 >  I tried several 9.0 images. The usb-uefi version, the usb-bios version and the cdrom version. Same issue.
 >  But, on the bios one, I got log messages. It turns out the issue is the same as http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=51716
 >  I'm pretty sure the installer wants to know where the root device is
 >
 >  boot device: <unknown>
 >  root device:
 >
 >  and expect that the user type the name of the device. But as far as I know the built in keyboard on this macbook pro is a usb 3 keyboard. And this is disabled while booting.... maybe...
 >  I had the same thing when I tried to install OpenBsd.
 >  Btw, FreeBsd doesn't have this issue.
 >
 >  So I can't obvisely don't plugin an external USB keyboard because USB is disabled??
 >
 >  Any Idea how I can workaround this issue, maybe providing a disk layout where the installer does not run into the interactive session. I could use the FreebSD live installer to prepare the disk.
 >
 >  Any idea/comment?
 >
 >  Thanks
 >  Marko
 >
 >