On 2018/09/24 07:51, Dr.Boutari wrote: > Hello. Im not a technology expert but Ive been using OSS systems for >about 8 years, so forgive my ignorance at some parts. > > Ive got a Toshiba Satellite c850. amd radeon hd 7610m vga Intel core > i5 3230 cpu 4gb ram > > Upon trying to boot from amd64 install cd it crashes shutdown before > reaching install prompt. > > I did boot -c then disable acpi. > > I was able to continue the setup successfully.
It's unclear which version you are using - there have been many changes to both acpi and radeondrm in OpenBSD since 6.3, if you were using a release version then it's definitely worth retrying with a -current snapshot. Even if that doesn't fix things, that would be useful information. If you still have problems, please disable what you need to in order to get it to boot, and run "sendbug -P > somefile.txt" as root, and use that as a template for a mail to [email protected] (it might be easiest to copy that to another machine if you don't have mail setup on the OpenBSD installation). > * Unrelated note Openbsd installer ignores partitioning with fdisk > and makes the whole HDD UFS,happened with a friend too and I lost my > partitions and data : ( * I had grub2 btw This depends on how you answer the installer's question which on amd64 is "Use (W)hole disk MBR, whole disk (G)PT or (E)dit?" (or with an extra option "(O)penBSD area" if one is already found on the disk). > After installing openbox and setting up .xinitrc with exec > openbox-session. I cant startx probably because i disabled radeon > driver and vesa doesnt seem to be a fallback. I looked vesa with > pkg_info -Q but didnt find it. I suppose its auto installed > with the base sets along xorg. Still its module is missing from > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules so I cant load it specifically with load "vesa" > in xorg.conf vesa should be an automatic fallback, the file is in the "drivers" subdirectory: $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/*vesa*.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 38384 Sep 21 21:36 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so This is in the "xserv" base set (pkg_info is only for packages, on OpenBSD the base system is separate).
