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OpenBSD ACER aspire 9300 laptop install panic
Hello all,
Sorry for the lengthy post but I want to explain my problem as good as possible! Since about a week I've been working on installing OpenBSD 4.9 (i386) from CD on this laptop and had some problems - very similar to the ones described in by user Sepuku in June. I've tried the steps outlined in the reply #9 by jggimi. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't. What I've noticed/tried: - upon booting from CD and disabling ACPI, sometimes I can run the full install. After booting from the HD OpenBSD crashes again with a panic screen. I've successfully installed OpenBSD 2 times now but cannot get it to boot reliably - if I don't disable ACPI I always get a panic screen during install - if I boot from HD, I've been able to get OpenBSD running without disabling ACPI once. - the liveCD of jggmi doesn't boot - I get a similar panic screen - the panic screen is shortly after the boot starts - I don't see any boot messages on a blue background. It takes less then a second to crash. I don't think it is due to a hardware problem: - the laptop has been running Windows XP without problems for years - I've tried booting and installing several distro's of linux (ubuntu, mint, clearos, ...) and it all works - no problem whatsoever. - I've tried installing OpenBSD 4.0 from the official CD's and that failed in the same way. - I've done an extensive memory test (11 hours) using memtest - I've done a thorough disktest and that came out good (apart from 2 sector reallocations) - looks like ACPI has no influence ... So I'm beginning to suspect a bug in OpenBSD. I've added 2 attachments: - a zip file containing evidence of the panic screens - dmesg file Some help to nail this further down is greatly appreciated. Regards, Marc |
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