Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Re: Cannot boot installer on Early 2015 Macbook Pro (12,1) on 7.6 / 7.7beta

Not very useful, but search back in the mailing list and you will find a
post from me about a failure to install on the exact same model of 
MacBook Pro.

There must be somthing delightfully different about these MacBook Pros!

it now runs Devuan linux because systemd is evil.

DaveT

On 11/04/2025 17:02, requiem. wrote:
> Dear @misc,
>
> I was trying to install OpenBSD on an Early-2015 (intel) Macbook Pro [1]
> earlier but the ramdisk fails to start. It stops somewhere halfway
> through, I never get to the install prompt. It hangs after it gets to:
>> sd0 at scsibus0 [...]
>> sd0: XMB, Y bytes/sector, Z sectors, thin
> And just nothing happens. [2]
>
> I have had no issues booting / (re)installing MacOS (El Capitan) or
> Linux (it currently has Fedora 42 installed). I updated the boot manager
> to rEFInd to see if it makes a difference but it did not.
>
> I attach the output of `hwinfo` and `dmesg` from Fedora, if it is any
> help.
>
> How can I get the installer to start? Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> requiem.
>
>
> [1]: Exact model is 12,1, the 2.9Ghz / 8Gb RAM version, full specs as
> here:
> https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.9-13-early-2015-retina-display-specs.html
> [2]: Output here: https://0x0.st/8pc_.jpg

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