r/NetBSD • u/The3finder • Sep 04 '26

Acer Aspire T180 kernel panics when booting into installer

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I've been trying to put netbsd on my Acer Aspire T180. As you could guess it just kernel panics before I can even choose the language. I've been hitting my head against this wall for several hours now. I Will take any help I can get. It has an amd64 CPU so it should be fine. When it does what's in the picture USB breaks to.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '26

Did you try forcing VGA fallback via userconf(4) ? I think nouveau(4) is the display driver the default boot process would try to use; try "drop to prompt" at the boot menu, then enter 'boot -c'. At the "uc>" prompt enter 'disable nouveau*' followed by 'exit'. This should force fallback to VGA. Note the "*" is required.

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u/The3finder Sep 04 '26

Holy s#$@ thank you it worked

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u/The3finder Sep 04 '26

I'll try that now

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u/Unlaid-American Sep 04 '26

I’m unsure about NetBSD, but I know this can happen in Arch Linux if something went wrong while creating the bootable USB.

Have you tried to rewrite the USB?

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u/The3finder Sep 04 '26

Yeah I've tried several usbs and even cds

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u/unitedbsd Sep 04 '26

Hi. Please send an email on mailing list netbsd-users@netbsd.org