Hello Sirs at OpenBSD this brief report is not a proper “bug”, but definitely a drawback to be taken into account for new users: I tried everything possible but cannot make the OpenBSD installation work on my laptop through a burned USB drive (3 GB). Description:
- the system where I burn the USB drive is a Mac OS X vs. 10.12.6 - Mac Mini (end 2012) - I burned a bootable USB carefully following the instructions at your link: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download <https://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html> - the bootable flash is intended for an Asus R513E laptop with an AMD dual core E1-23100 1.00 GHz - I burned the USB with a MS-DOS (FAT) filesystem - I plug the USB into the laptop and open the system boot preferences - I choose the UEFI: USB DISK 3.0 PMAP option and - the system always replies with the following warning: boot> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argumnt failed(22). will try /bsd Turning timeout off. boot> _ and there it stops. Where is the mistake in the procedure? I would really appreciate Your suggestion and be able to replace my current Linux distro with OpenBSD! Thank you in advance, with Best Regards Fabiano Spiga
