On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2025/09/06 10:18, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 10:00:34PM +0000, s...@clockworkdown.net wrote: > > > I could not boot the bsd.rd kernel over PXE (hard resets after entry > > > point on the serial console) and tried the install77.img which contains > > > the same. > > > > Did you reconfigure the console to use a serial port at the boot loader > > prompt? The default is to use a VGA console which doesn't work on alix. > > > > boot> stty com0 115200 > > boot> set tty com0 > > boot> boot bsd > > > > FWIW, soekris 5501 (same SoC as alix 2d3) works ok with 7.7-release, > so there's a high chance it is just due to this misconfiguration when > installing. > > it is not a great machine to run recent OpenBSD on, though. > reorder_kernel and library_aslr take forever on them. > mine will be replaced when I can get up to the relevant datacentre.
Provided you can put a SATA SSD into them which provides swap space they are still somewhat viable. Memory: Real: 23M/125M act/tot Free: 110M Cache: 47M Swap: 16M/2566M
