Hi Jan, On 15-May-2014 18:53:18, Jan Stary wrote:
I am trying to install 6.1.4/i386 on this Dell Inspiron 3700, without much success. The installer's kernel either stops at piixide0 and doesn't go any further, or uvm_fault's while detecting esm0.
Try the technique I used [here][1] of dropping to userconf and disabling various drivers to see if you can get it to boot.
Based on [this web page][2] perhaps try disabling piixide. I assume NetBSD will automagically try some other driver? If it doesn't maybe you can enable another via userconf? Based on [this thread][3] perhaps there are some BIOS settings you can tweak/change that affects the driver used?
Assuming you do eventually get it working you can easily (honestly!) build your own kernel and enable ACPI (for what it's worth; it doesn't bring much to me beyond automatically powering off).
[1]: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2014/03/19/msg014316.html[2]: http://djbnetbsd.drivehq.com/PC/NetBSD/Calisthenics/Older_Laptops/index.html [3]: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2009/09/15/msg004514.html