On 6/6/19 2:23 AM, Hyrundo Publishing Association wrote: > Hello Sirs at OpenBSD > > this brief report is not a proper “bugâ€, 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)
Macs scare me. should be possible, but since you haven't told us how you did it, I'm suspicious. > - 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 What did you actually DO? > - I burned the USB with a MS-DOS (FAT) filesystem No idea what you did, but that's definitely wrong. The installxx.fs is a raw disk image, not something to be placed on a file system. > - I plug the USB into the laptop and open the system boot preferences > - I choose the UEFI: USB DISK 3.0 PMAP option and I'm not a UEFI expert (I really need to fix that), but I don't know that the *.fs images are UEFI compatible. Definitely should work with the traditional BIOS boot. > - 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! If you have a Linux system, using the dd process should work nicely. Nick.
