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List:       openbsd-bugs
Subject:    Re: Follow Up - First Bug Report Submittal - Re: Unable to install OBSD on new Toshiba Laptop
From:       "Robert Gray" <robertgray86 () gmx ! com>
Date:       2013-04-19 19:32:05
Message-ID: 20130419193205.187870 () gmx ! com
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Thank you all:

To Janne Johansson: 
> If both OSes show frequent crashing behaviour, it's a very strong 
> indication of that the machine is at fault.

Win8 works - though I'm getting annoyed w/all the pkgd 3rd party
Ads - ^_^. Spent a morning uninstalling useless crap that kept
giving me pop-ups asking me to try their apps. Bought my last box 
9 years ago, when accessories came in separate CDs - guess 
That's Life nowadays with a new Windoze Machine.

Thus far, the Ubuntu LiveCD (Current) works. OpenBSD LiveCD
(obviously) doesen't. I haven't been able to get a LiveUSB of any 
OS boot yet (I'm looking into it - used UNetbootin and others. 
Probably will try cook a Linux USB from a LiveCD).

I concur that it's the "machine" - due to its being a "new platform"
introduced over the Year End Holidays. Most 3rd Gen Intel iSeries
on the market (at affordable/attractive px) are i3 and i5s, 

I nabbed the i7 when I looked around for similar products (found one);
and the retailers have all sold out their wares.

The Toshiba was mfg in CHN and serviced in Tennessee. Maybe some of their
employees are BSD Ussr Group Members; and can tinker with OBSD at work.

----- Original Message -----
From: Janne Johansson
Sent: 04/19/13 01:21 AM
To: Robert Gray
Subject: Re: Follow Up - First Bug Report Submittal - Re: Unable to install OBSD on \
new Toshiba Laptop

2013/4/19 Robert Gray < robertgray86@gmx.com >Greetings; and sorry to bother:
I'm using Win8 - where apps and plugins crash often.
After writing the dialogue on paper, jggimi at Daemonforums posted a method to "sh \
MAKEDEV" in order to mount a USB to the install disk shell session and retrieve the \
dmesg. My thanks to jggimi. Granted, the crashed environment isn't a stable platfor!  \
m; but the IIRC, the Debubber (ddb>) did allow for shell commands that included the \
dmesg command. If both OSes show frequent crashing behaviour, it's a very strong \
                indication of that the machine is at fault.
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May the most significant bit of your life be positive.



Robert Gray
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