NetBSD-Install does not work on the new MacBooks (was: dk* drivers on NetBSD 5.0 (beta)-install)

Le 7 nov. 08 à 02:23, Michal Suchanek a écrit :

> You can hold Alt (or Option or what you have painted on the key)
> instead of C to get Apple's boot menu and select the CD there without
> excessive key presses.
>
> On the Apple boxes I have seen so far the keyboard part of the PC bios
> emulation is more or less broken, though. You cannot type anything so
> the NetBSD boot loader just times out (the timeout seems very short)
> and things like isolinux keep waiting forever. I heard that the
> emulation works on some macbooks so you you might have better luck
> with this part.

Right, I did that. The CD-Rom is detected (so this is a bug in rEFIt).  
But, even though, as you noted, I could not type anything, the boot  
loader starts immediately on the default option.

But maybe I need pckbd, after all?

>> Unapplicable: 4.01 won't start. After a short while (still in the  
>> discovery
>> of the peripherals), the console shuts down, the screen blanks and  
>> the
>> computer emits beeps indefinitely. Looks like a memory problem.
>
> That' what you get for working with too new hardware ;-)

I know that ;) But if NetBSD does not install even the most basic of  
the kernels, how to hope fixing it?

Cheers
Vincent