On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 06:57:46PM -0500, J Dragu wrote: > Hello, > > I know there was a previous thread here about a perhaps similar issue > with 6.8 (?), but since from what I can tell it was fixed with 6.9 > I figured I'd ask about my problem. If there's something obvious I'm > missing I do apologize! > > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 7.0 on a Thinkpad T410 from a USB stick. > Whenever I try to boot in to the installer I get the following messages: > > > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > > booting hd0a:/7.0/amd64/bsd.rd: 38030471+1598464+3907256+0+704512 > [109+288+28]=0x995530 > > entry point at 0xffffffff81001000 > > ... at which point it becomes unresponsive. I've checked to make sure > the BIOS are up to date (1.45, going by Lenovo's website), and also > fiddled with some settings like disabling hyperthreading, to no avail. > I'm writing this email from my X61s (which is running 7.0 just fine) > and I tried putting this SSD in the T410 and got the exact same results, > so I suppose the issue isn't with the installer itself (?). Has anyone > else encountered this? > > Thank you for reading. > J >
2 things to try: 1. get a latest snap if you didn't already. 2. boot> machine memory ... and show the result here.

