> On 4 May 2021, at 21:50, Dave Voutila <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mischa writes: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have a couple of machines running on 6.8 still, will upgrade soon. :) >> For some reason when I am trying to boot a 6.9 bsd.rd nothing is happening. > > 6.9 bsd.rd's for amd64 are gzip'd. For 6.9, vmd was taught how to boot > compressed kernels/ramdisks.
Ah yes! I remember the discussion and thread about that, now. >> It's only showing: >> Connected to /dev/ttypq (speed 115200) >> >> Nothing else appears. >> Booting from a 6.8 bsd.rd works normally. >> >> Equally booting from 6.9 bsd.rd on a 6.9 host works as expected as well. >> >> Something I can do to make this work? > > gunzip the ramdisk and a 6.8 vmd instance should be able to boot it. > > Once you have a guest updated and it's using seabios it will be booting > off the disk image and it shouldn't matter at that point. Will give that a try. Thanx Dave! Mischa > > -dv
