Re: OpenBSD install on a g5 imac power pc

2018-12-09 Thread diego righi
I've tried openbsd on an old imac g5 but I've installed onto an usb drive because I didn't want to lose osx since the internal cdrom is broken and it would be a PITA to reinstall... this is how I did: 1) copy bsd, bsd.rd, ofwboot in the root of the osx boot drive (which is the only internal drive)

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-25 Thread diego righi
> The only way it would works is if in your futzing about with bootloaders > and kernels you accidentally fixed it by moving the kernel somewhere the > BIOS can read it (in which case either boot loader would be able to read > it). > > On 10/25/2018 2:14 PM, diego righi wrote: > >

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-25 Thread diego righi
ve tried! On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:09 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > > diego righi wrote: > > > Big "a" slice may not be advised and not secure for production, but it > > always worked. > > Do you have evidence? > > > (and on i386 it still works, even o

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-25 Thread diego righi
is line, it > just rebooted at the line counting all these numbers, I think that it the > very first line of the boot pricess if I am not mistaken. > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:57 PM, diego righi < > diego.ri...@gmail.com> wr

Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

2018-10-25 Thread diego righi
did you make only one big a slice? try to put the i386 bootloader ;) On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 18:20 mabi wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed OpenBSD 6.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge R410 server. The > installation went fine but upon reboot I get to the "boot>" prompt then the > first line of the