Re: freeze on startup

2020-05-16 Thread Aaron Mason
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:32 AM Joseph A Borg wrote: > > I can boot into bsd.rd, which I assume to be still at version 6.5 > Don't assume, find out. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse

Re: BIOS/MBR vs UEFI/GPT install

2020-05-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 1:45 AM Clay Daniels wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 9:58 AM Mihai Popescu wrote: > >> My computer allows me to boot from USB disk prepared with minirootXX.iso >> in >> two ways, Legacy and EFI. I used Legacy until now with BIOS/MBR to install >> and use OpenBSD. >>

Re: BIOS/MBR vs UEFI/GPT install

2020-05-16 Thread Clay Daniels
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 9:58 AM Mihai Popescu wrote: > My computer allows me to boot from USB disk prepared with minirootXX.iso in > two ways, Legacy and EFI. I used Legacy until now with BIOS/MBR to install > and use OpenBSD. > I tried UEFI/GPT but things went wrong and I was not able to boot Op

freeze on startup

2020-05-16 Thread Joseph A Borg
tried upgrading an old box from 6.4 to 6.5 to 6.6. process worked like a charm until last upgrade loaded some firmware update and I restarted. hardware is a Gigabyte Celeron motherboard with an ssd and an hd. There is an extra pci network card. GA-J1900M-D2P micro-ITX The system locks at this p

BIOS/MBR vs UEFI/GPT install

2020-05-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
My computer allows me to boot from USB disk prepared with minirootXX.iso in two ways, Legacy and EFI. I used Legacy until now with BIOS/MBR to install and use OpenBSD. I tried UEFI/GPT but things went wrong and I was not able to boot OpenBSD's kernel after install. Is there any penalty using BIOS/