On 2013-04-03, Vijay Sankar <vsan...@foretell.ca> wrote: > The following system runs -current from January 2013 without any > problems. But attempts to install from the past few snapshots have > failed. > > Installation of April 2, 2013 -current went through without any issues > but upon first reboot, the console was blank, I could not access the > system using SSH and it does not respond to pings.
How far do you get before the console goes blank, does the kernel start and print text, and then go blank part-way through booting? To help narrow things down, do you get further if at the boot loader you do this: boot -c disable inteldrm quit It looks like there is a header for a serial port on the motherboard, if you have a connector somewhere and can hook it up via null modem to another machine you might get more information (e.g. if it panics while switching video mode you'll be able to get a trace).
