On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM Greg A. Woods <wo...@planix.ca> wrote: > > At Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:00:21 +0300, Andrius V <vezh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: NetBSD still fails to boot on a MacBook7,1 > > > > I believe it is a good idea to rebuild kernel without nouveau and > > nouveaufb support and try to boot it to fully rule out nouveau > > influence. > > (that's seems to be one of the differences between netbsd-7 and > > netbsd-8, nouveau/nouveaufb were disabled by default) > > I finally got around to trying this, but with no luck. Video output > from the kernel still looks "torn". > > I would have been surprised if nouveau(4) was causing problems at boot > time though -- this is the initial output from wscons, not X11. >
Yeah, it seemed that way by the symptoms, but better to be sure... Sorry, I can't help much here. One more thing you may try is to make sure that it is not a bootloader issue and try to boot netbsd 7 kernel on the latest install image for example (or even other way around if bootloader would work). Not sure how much bootloader is responsible for this though, but I had experience of wasted debugging time on bootloader issue when I thought it was a kernel one. Regards, Andrius V
