Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:17:57AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > but it booted and ran the installer? Yes. There appears to be a problem with the kernel. I just tried something interesting. I booted the installer and used the shell to save bsd as obsd on the installed system and then ln -s bsd.rd

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3 update

2013-06-19 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 08:10:17PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > An update...the bsd.rd kernel boots from / but not bsd. bsd from snapshots > > also boots. Looks like there is some problem with bsd in loongson 5.3 > > release. > > Where did you get your 5.3 release from? Did you check its md5?

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3 update

2013-06-19 Thread Miod Vallat
> An update...the bsd.rd kernel boots from / but not bsd. bsd from snapshots > also boots. Looks like there is some problem with bsd in loongson 5.3 > release. Where did you get your 5.3 release from? Did you check its md5? Miod

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:53:30PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > A fresh install also doesn't boot and using PMON to boot into it fails the > > same way as on the old install. Well crap. That was unexpected. > > If a new install fails, now that's something unexpected. Will installing > 5.2 (which

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread Miod Vallat
> A fresh install also doesn't boot and using PMON to boot into it fails the > same way as on the old install. Well crap. That was unexpected. If a new install fails, now that's something unexpected. Will installing 5.2 (which used to work) boot again? Miod

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread Miod Vallat
> Has anyone done a successful upgrade from Loongson 5.2 to 5.3? I've done > upgrades on numerous platforms and this is the only one I've ever had > problems with. The upgrade seemed to go fine and finish normally. After the > reboot it goes from the Lemote Dragon screen to a black screen and stops

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3 update

2013-06-19 Thread John Long
An update...the bsd.rd kernel boots from / but not bsd. bsd from snapshots also boots. Looks like there is some problem with bsd in loongson 5.3 release. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \

re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 ->  5.3

2013-06-19 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
Did not upgrade mine yet. Wait for Miod's answer. He's the best person for knowledge on this platform. > Message du 19/06/13 17:09 > De : "John Long" > A : misc@openbsd.org > Copie à : > Objet : Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 ->  5.3 > > Sorry if this is duplicated. Been a few ho

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread Bryan Irvine
but it booted and ran the installer? On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM, John Long wrote: > A fresh install also doesn't boot and using PMON to boot into it fails the > same way as on the old install. Well crap. That was unexpected. > > PMON> boot -k /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot > Loading file: /dev

Re: Can't boot Loongson after upgrade from 5.2 -> 5.3

2013-06-19 Thread John Long
A fresh install also doesn't boot and using PMON to boot into it fails the same way as on the old install. Well crap. That was unexpected. PMON> boot -k /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot Loading file: /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot (elf) (elf) 0x81e2/44368 + 0x81e2ad50/4400(z) + >> OpenBSD/loongson BOOT