<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Saga Continue, still trying 4.8:</font><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Boot from USB or CD, same results (which is good).</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Peeter, I have not tried dragonflybsd 3.6.2 just yet. Do you think it will boot without EFI support?</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Full boot I get this (menu item 1)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: APIC 0x00000000BF966000 000068 (v01 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: APIC 0x00000000BF965000 000068 (v02 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: ASF! 0x00000000BF963000 0000A5 (v32 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: SBST 0x00000000BF962000 000030 (v01 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: ECDT 0x00000000BF961000 000053 (v01 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000BF958000 0002A6 (v01 APPLE SataAhci 00001000 INTL 20061109)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000BF957000 000024 (v01 APPLE Apple 00001000 INTL 20061109)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000BF956000 0004DC (v01 APPLE CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20061109)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ACPI: MCFG 0x00000000BF964000 00003C (v01 APPLE Apple00 00000001 Loki 0000005F)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">aesni0: No AESNI support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">padlock0: No ACE support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">rdrand0: No RdRand support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">acpi0: <APPLE Apple00> on motherboard</span></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: 4 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><hangs here></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Without ACHI driver (menu item 3)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">SAME AS ABOVE</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Without ACPI driver (menu item 4)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">cycles between</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ahci0.0: Cannot start FIS reception</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ahci0:0: failed to start command DMA on port, disabling</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ahci0.1: Cannot start FIS reception</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ahci0.0: Waiting 10 seconds</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ahci0.1: Cannot start FIS reception</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ahci0:1: failed to start command DMA on port, disabling</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">ahci0.1: Waiting 10 seconds</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Does a bunch of probes and ends up with this (booting from CD)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Manual root filestystem specifications:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><fstype>:<device> Specify root (e.g. ufs:da0s1a)</span></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>List valid disk boot devices</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">panic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Just panic</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">abort<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Abort manual input</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">mountroot></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">(however the keyboard is locked, so I can’t enter anything)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Safe Mode (menu item 2)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">SAME AS menu item 4 — without ACPI driver</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Verbose (menu item v)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Same as full, with added output - of course</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">aesni0: No AESNI support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">padlock0: No ACE support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">rdrand0: No RdRand support.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">acpi0.nexus0.root0</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">acpi0: <APPLE Apple00> [tentative] on motherboard </span></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">ACPI: 4 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded</font></div></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">PCIe: Memory Mapped configuration bas @ 0xf00000000, bus [0, 5]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">PCIe: Using Memory mapped configuration</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><hangs></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">I did escape to the boot prompt and disabled acpi and the USB3 driver. Still no go.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 24, 2017, at 3:00 PM, <a href="mailto:users-request@dragonflybsd.org" class="">users-request@dragonflybsd.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Send Users mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:users@dragonflybsd.org" class="">users@dragonflybsd.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>users-request@dragonflybsd.org<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>users-owner@dragonflybsd.org<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of Users digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Re: DragonflyBSD 4.8 on Mac Mini 2010 - fails to install<br class=""> (karu.pruun)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:16:07 +0300<br class="">From: "karu.pruun" <karu.pruun@gmail.com><br class="">To: ron georgia <rong1611@gmail.com><br class="">Cc: "users@dragonflybsd.org" <users@dragonflybsd.org><br class="">Subject: Re: DragonflyBSD 4.8 on Mac Mini 2010 - fails to install<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><CADdF=M+YpA+8UD7fnZOEbAi9_xTUX75ucjc80J9Ai50yQyuf+Q@mail.gmail.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br class=""><br class="">Hello<br class=""><br class="">I may have ran into similar issue with a mac laptop from 2009. By way<br class="">of testing, can you check if dragonfly 3.6.2 boots without acpi --- at<br class="">boot, get to prompt and give<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">lunset acpi_load<br class="">set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1<br class="">boot -v<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">If it boots, then the behavior is similar. There are possibly two<br class="">problems that need to be resolved so that 4.8 can boot on mac. The<br class="">first one has a patch, the second one needs more debugging.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">Peeter<br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:47 PM, ron georgia <rong1611@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I tried to install DragonflyBSD 4.8 on my Mac Mini 2010 model. It hangs<br class="">after ?printing? this message:<br class=""><br class="">ACPI: 4 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded.<br class=""><br class="">I was able to install both OpenBSD and FreeBSD current (not at the same<br class="">time). OpenBSD worked out of the box and I needed a little Google foo to get<br class="">FreeBSD to use the bge interface. I did try all the ?boot without? options<br class="">and ended up in the same place. Are there any boot flags I can set or some<br class="">black magic incantation to get Dragonfly on my Mac Mini?<br class=""><br class="">Ron<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Users mailing list<br class="">Users@dragonflybsd.org<br class="">http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of Users Digest, Vol 56, Issue 18<br class="">*************************************<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>