easiest way to get to the "Illegal instruction" problem is this. 1. make a bootable usb stick with install58.fs or install59.fs 2. boot machine to install OpenBSD 3. select s to the first question to get a shell 4. type "ping -c 2 google.com" or "ping google.com"
if i do ping -c 1 google.com it has no error steps i used to reproduce the problem when i originally found it are here. 1. make a bootable usb stick with install58.fs or install59.fs 2. boot machine to install OpenBSD 3. answer all the questions up to location of sets 4. select either http or disk 4a. if you select http you get the error on the step where the installer says "Get/Verify bsd" and the error is imediately "Illegal instruction" 4b. if you select disk you have to answer the next couple of questions then you get the error on the step where the installer says "Installing base58.tgz" and ther error is as below [CODE] zip: stdin: Input/output error tar: End of archive volume 1 reached Illegal instruction ftp: Can't open file ///mnt/usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz: No such file or directory gzip: stdin: unrecognized file format tar: End of archive volume 1 reached tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. Installation of base58.tgz failed. Continue anyway? [no] [/CODE] on this same machine i can install OpenBSD 5.7 amd64 and 5.8 i386 but not 5.8 amd64 or 5.9 snapshot amd64 this is a link to some pictures of the problem hapening and a dmesg output from the 5.8 i386 install https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B65SFmee2f1Ud29WdzZGMUg4OU0&usp=sharing if it helps i am working on getting a coredumps by attempting the upgrade from 5.7 without the install kernel as shown here http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade58.html#upgrade -Casey(i3luefire)
