> If you have two installs on that one machine, say that up front. I actually did: "I have 2 ssds each running openbsd, but the UEFI is clearly specified to boot against one of the SSDs."
> What makes you "suspect" it installed on tho other disk? Boot into that other > install and see for yourself. What made me suspect that was the absence of mail showing the error. It was just a thought. I cannot easily boot into the other system, but I mounted the other system, and all files were old and it's still running an old openbsd version, so this theory looks incorrect. > do you have root's email forwarded to a regular account yes, I do. I can easily check inside /var/log/messages that the ramdisk for openbsd 7.8 is loaded, but the install seems to stop too early, and does not emit any mail. > I don't think /bsd.upgrade would choose some _other_ disk yes, it seems you're right, my theory seems mistaken. > Why? sysupgrade is supposed to work unattended. Yes, but as I said, I am in this weird situation where if I only plug a screen via HDMI (and do not make any other change), then the sysupgrade works fine. That's what I mean by doing it only via ssh, in the sense that is what I'm trying to debug. I've tried to increase the log level in /var/log/messages by replacing *.notif by *.debug in /etc/syslog.conf, but no useful error messages there. Thanks for your thought. Still a bit lost as to how to proceed, but will try to continue to poke around. > On 25 Dec 2025, at 21:28, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 25 20:40:28, [email protected] wrote: >> I am starting to suspect that the booting process >> installs OpenBSD 7.8 on another disk (on which > I also have a boot partition). > > Eh. > > If you have two installs on that one machine, say that up front. > > What makes you "suspect" it installed on tho other disk? > Boot into that other install and see for yourself. > >> That would explain why i have no mail. > > I don't think so. On either of the two installs, > root gets daily, weekly, monthly emails. To repeat: > do you have root's email forwarded to a regular account > whose mail you read? (Also, to be sure: ls -l /var/mail) > >> I am not sure if I can force the boot process to target >> a specific drive? > > I don't think /bsd.upgrade would choose some _other_ disk > then the one into which you system regularly boots. > >> obviously the difficulty is to do it only via ssh. > > Why? sysupgrade is supposed to work unattended. >
