On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:43:58PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > So I got me this Asus board with an integrated Celeron > http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/J1800IC/specifications/ > and put 2G of Crucial RAM in it. > > "A PC is a PC is a PC" I can hear you say, > but somehow I can't get current/i386 to run on it. > > Using another current/i386 machine as an installer, > I installed current/i386 on a Samsung 250GB SATA disk > (installing onto the external sd1). Then I put this > SATA disk into the Asus board to boot from it. > > Firstly, it didn't even _try_ to boot from it. > The POST screen mentioned the disk is there > (with the correct Samsung code and all), > but went straight to BIOS; in the BOOT menu, > the disk was not an option (just PXE). > > That was my first encounter with the UEFI "Secure Boot" horror > - and there was no way to "disable" it, the "enabled" setting > was gray'ed out. I set the "OS type" to "Other" (as opposed to > "Windows 8", the only other option), no change. Then I deleted > the database of "keys" - that made the Secure Boot "disabled", > but it still didn't try to boot from the disk, and didn't even > present it as an option in the boot menu. > > Only after upgarding to the latest BIOS > http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/J1800IC/HelpDesk_Download/ > I am presented with "CMS settings" where I can somehow make > other systems (other boot loaders) allowed. > So now it finally gets to the OpenBSD boot loader. > > But /bsd panics during boot, /bsd.sp and /bsd.rd panic too. > I don't know if the previous is relevant to it. > > The board has a serial console, but I can't get it to work > (the manual does not specify the baud rate, I tried all > baud rates from 9600 to 115200 that I have met, but > I never get anything after "connected"); so here are > the pictures (sorry): > > /bsd > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsd-panic.jpg > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsd-trace.jpg > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsd-ddbcpu.jpg > (the last command just sits there) > > /bsd.sp > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsdsp-panic.jpg > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsdsp-trace.jpg > > /bsd.rd > http://stare.cz/dmesg/asus-J1800IC-bsdrd-panic.jpg > > > I don't think these newer machines are even supposed to work without ACPI > - indeed, disabling ACPI makes /bsd panic in identifycpu(). > What can I do to further debug it? > > Jan
Use google... http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2014-05/1637.html -Otto
