Re: NetBSD-7.0 boots OK and NetBSD-8.0 hangs/crashes during boot on a MacBook7,1

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:07:51PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
>> A quick look around suggests that some of the very high end gaming ones
>> don't. Also assuming users will actually be able to find a cable to actually
>> hook up the motherboard COM port is optimistic. You would probably have to
>> get one second hand these days and if I remember correctly there are 2
>> incompatible pinouts for the 10 pin header. :(
>
> I had no trouble ordering new ones late last year.

If you wanted a branded one (!), there's a Lenovo server option with 
SKU 7Z17A02577 (I don't know about the pinout off-hand, but I have one 
here I could buzz through if anyone really cared).

-- 
Stephen