On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:13:13 +0200,
Mäster Lundqvist Machin Snickeri <dlmsagerod@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been testing OpenBSD over the years on my 2016 Macbook, and it
> has always failed to boot the installer. Linux works and the other
> BSDs does boot but with no keyboard support.
> The installer gets stuck after the NVMe drive
>
> I have a photo of the screen uploaded here:
> https://pasteboard.co/TMpCvUayCM8I.jpg
>
> I figure this is hopeless but It would be nice to give this small
> nice, old and abandoned hardware a second life.
>
If it is a MacBook with touchpad I had very bad news for you.
All this machines is quite unique, and their support isn't good to say at
least, because it needs some unique drivers.
See: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Here my attempt to run OpenBSD on almost similar machine few months ago:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=173313729629501&w=2
and another attempt from Robert:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174697672314597&w=2
--
wbr, Kirill
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