Tried running OpenBSD on an ancient Nortel Contivity 100. The issue is that the CPU claims to support RdRand despite being a 286MHz Cyrix 6x686MX.
So, as soon as OpenBSD tries to use that instruction for /dev/random, the kernel jumps into debug land with the following: kernel: privileged instruction fault trap, code=0 Stopped at rdrand+0x12: %edx I noticed that the RdRand instruction came in at OpenBSD 5.3, so I’ll try 5.2 and see where I get. I should also mention that the only serial terminal I have right now is a Casio Cassiopeia running Windows CE 2.11, so I can’t save the full boot log yet. The question I have is can I disable the random number generator’s use of that instruction? I’d rather be on -current than years old.
