> On 2023/10/26 11:08, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2023/10/26 10:37, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:06 AM Stuart Henderson > > > <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2023-10-26, harold felton <hfeltonad...@hfelton.com> wrote: > > > > > i have a pcengines apu4 which has been running 7.1-stable with all > > > > > updates > > > > > just fine... i had been avoiding doing an upgrade - so was thinking > > > > > to > > > > > reinstall based on 7.4-release this week... i was unable to do an > > > > > install > > > > > from the bsd.rd (for 7.4) - and have bisected the issue to somewhere > > > > > around > > > > > the 9th or 10th of september... > > > > > > > > Can you try updating to 7.3 first? (or at least updating the boot loader > > > > to the version that was included in 7.3). > > > > > > > > > > I'm not really sue what you mean by a "reinstall", but I did a clean > > > install of 7.4 on my apu4 just a few days ago, and everything just > > > worked out of the box - including the serial console which was > > > correctly autodetected. > > > > > > At a glance it appears we have the same bios version. > > > > A fresh install (for example, from PXE or img file on USB) will have > > a recent boot loader. Updating by booting new bsd.rd from a 7.1 > > installation (skipping two version updates) uses an old boot loader, > > which may possibly not boot a new kernel. > > > > I'll change that "may possibly not" to "will not .. with serial console"; > kn@ removed backwards compatibility for this > > https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/745c2f60e98fd1f418c104960a567e120624d705 > >
I just wanted to add a second thank-you to all who helped ( thru this list ) !!! in particular, after looking at the code in the link - and the rationales (dont need duplicating-type code past the two versions normally supported) - i have learned quite a bit... i had/have already made enough fumbly-mistakes on my own during this process (also) to teach me to triple-check everything - especially when i am asking for help... i normally only get the daily message-digests of misc, hence my delays here... and due to general paranoia of further PEBKAC, i have not yet done the reinstall on my device - but i have confirmed that i now "can" do the reinstall... again, thx. :-)
