On 7/24/24 08:24, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jul 24 07:46:09, [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> The problem persists with every USB stick,
> with each of miniroot75.img, install75.img
> and a full usb stick install, on every USB port.
Out of curiosity, does the machine successfully boot OpenBSD/i386 from a USB
stick?
No. Booting install75,img gets to boot>, but stops at the
booting hd0a:/7.5/i386/bsd.rd: |
The rotating slash stops rotating and the machine freezes
This is what _sometimes_ also happens with amd64,
but more often, the amd64 reboots at that point.
Interesting twist -- boots from installed SSD but not from install image
on USB. So ... while you are thinking there's a boot issue with USB, I'm
more inclined to believe it is the install kernel vs. the full kernel.
So ... two tests...one easy, one slow:
1) Can the installed system boot the install kernel from SSD?
boot> boot bsd.rd
2) IF on another computer you build an installed system on a USB stick,
so rather than booting the installer, it boots an installed OpenBSD, will
that work on this machine?
I'm betting a very tiny amount of money #2 works, but #1 fails.
I have a machine where bsd.rd fails because there's no monitor attached
to the HDMI port. Attach a monitor or HDMI "fake monitor" plug, and the
thing boots bsd.rd fine. But...it's a thin client machine, no monitor
at all..I'm having trouble believing your laptop is having this same
issue. (this particular machine is noted for this problem on Linux, too,
except Linux won't boot headless at all; the full OpenBSD kernel boots
just fine headless, but you can't do a headless upgrade.)
Nick.
