Note: I would like to provide a dmesg, but am not sure how to do this
when the system cannot boot successfully.

I took a photo of the boot screen with my phone, which is shown here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ne9jpx8vja2rck/2014-06-09%2015.55.27.jpg

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Anders Jensen-Waud <aojen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to boot OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) from an SD memory card on my Macbook 
> Air (most recent model).
>
> When I boot from the SD card (both bsd and bsd.mp) the boot process hangs at 
> “root device: “
>
> The SSD drive in the machine is identified as sd0 upon boot. The OpenBSD boot 
> loader identifies both hd0 and hd1. I also tried asking the kernel to ASK for 
> a root device by issuing: boot hd0a:/bsd.mp -a, but with no luck.
>
> Any ideas how I can boot from this card successfully?
>
> Cheers
>
> Anders
>
> (Note: I created the OpenBSD installation by mounting the SD card in 
> VirtualBox on Mac OS X and then installing OpenBSD onto it inside the VM. The 
> installation wen fine.)



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Best regards,

Anders Jensen-Waud
E-mail: aojen...@gmail.com
Phone: +61 478 320 664

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