On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade
> from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- the boot
> sequence gets as far as "softraid0 at root"
> and then stops. There is no response to
> ctrl-alt-del and the system must be power
> cycled.
>
> Appended is the output from a serial console
> booting 4.8 bsd.rd and the dmesg from a regular
> 4.7 boot. (The output below is from my rebuild
> of bsd.rd from the latest in cvs, booting off
> the hard drive. I get the same behavior when
> booting from a purchased 4.8 cd.)
>
> Where should I go from here?
try a snapshot, or do a "remote" upgrade (which doesn't use bsd.rd).
As I recall, 4.8 bsd works just fine on Pentium I machines, but bsd.rd
does not. Only impacts Pentium I machines, not 486 (unless you put a
"Pentium Overdrive" chip in it), not PII.
Nick.
> Thanks.
>
> The 4.8 bsd.rd serial port boot output:
> ------------------<snip>--------------------
>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.02
> boot> bsd.rd
> booting hd0a:bsd.rd: 5869116+942776 [61+224832+212939]=0x6ea0dc
> entry point at 0x200120
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1995-2010 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://
> www.OpenBSD.org
>
> OpenBSD 4.8-stable (RAMDISK_CD) #0: Sat Nov 13 01:56:19 CST 2010
> k...@forge.meme.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
> cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 100 MHz
... (gotta love dmesgs!) ...
