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Re: unable to boot amd64-uefi-install from USB stick on a MacBook2,1



At Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:37:03 -0800, "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: unable to boot amd64-uefi-install from USB stick on a MacBook2,1
>
> Now the video mode changes (to full-screen, with a solid large block
> cursor, as opposed to the small box of text centred on the screen when
> the firmware is running and when NetBSD's boot loader runs); and the
> system does not appear to lock up quite as completely (the caps lock key
> still toggles its light; and pressing the power button for one short
> press makes the cursor disappear, but does not finish the shutdown).
>
> However still nothing is printed on the console by the kernel.

A recent build of 9.99.64 is more or less behaving the same, or worse on
this older MacBook2,1 -- the kernel loads, the video mode changes, and a
solid non-blinking block cursor appears in the top left, but the caps
lock key no longer does anything.  A short press on the power button
does make the solid block cursor disappear.

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					Greg A. Woods <gwoods%acm.org@localhost>

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