On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:15 AM Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:03:10AM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How does this show itself? > > > > I have an older 2013 era system with Pentium G2020 or so (going from > > memory here, so might be wrong), which does not go into OpenBSD > > install. Just sits there with Dell logo. Only takes a Ctrl-Alt-Del > > command for a reboot, and if I try to enter into BIOS, it does not. It > > does not come into the OpenBSD boot prompt. > > > > I am trying to decide if this is due to the above changes or something > > else, like hardware failure etc. I last installed a snapshot on it 3 > > days ago, and it has never come back up. Should I try to pull the boot > > hard drive into another running system, and then manually try to copy > > over a clean /bsd.mp on the next snapshot? > > > > thanks > > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:20 AM Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > > > > > > It looks like some BIOS do not like the recent biosboot changes. > > > Symptoms are a hang in the bios. > > > > > > I reverted them, the next amd64 snap should be ok again. > > > > > > -Otto > > > > > Yes, this sounds very much like the issue I'm talking about. > > Updating the kernel will not help. The problem is in some bad > interaction between *some* BIOS implementations and the updated > biosboot. > > It is very likely that the disk will boot in another system without > issues. On that system, install the new snap when it arrives. Then you > can put the disk back in the problem system. > > There are probably workarounds, like putting the disk in another > system and running an older installboot from that system on the disk > containing the trouble. But if you do not feel comfortable doing that > please do an upgrade. > > And next time please try to report this earlier. The sooner we learn > about these issues the better. >
Sorry for not reporting earlier Otto, I sincerely thought this is a hardware related issue, and was going to wait for the weekend to try various things. Thanks
