On 2018-02-24, Israel Brewster <isr...@ravnalaska.net> wrote: > I have an HP Compaq Pro 6300 machine on which I am trying to run > OpenBSD. The installer boots and runs fine, but after rebooting into the > newly installed OS, I start getting the boot sequence (the white text on > blue background stuff - don't know what that is officially called), but > after a second or so the screen goes blank and that's all she wrote. > > My first thought was that it was just a display issue, and that I > should be able to ssh in and tweak stuff, but as it turns out, the > machine never shows up on the network, either, so apparently it never > gets far enough in the boot process to enable the network (networking > *does* work while I am running through the installer, so I don't think > it's just a missing network driver there).
It sounds like it's crashing after the video mode is changed. The machine probably has inteldrm so at the boot loader prompt, try "boot -c", then at UKC "disable inteldrm" and "quit". That may let it boot, if not then you're at least more likely to see a hidden error message of some sort. If this is 6.2, try -current instead. If it's OpenBSD/i386, try amd64 instead.
