Re: Error booting OpenBSD 5.5 on Macbook Air

[Anders Østergaard Jensen-Waud]

Note: I would like to provide a dmesg, but am not sure how to do this
when the system cannot boot successfully.

I took a photo of the boot screen with my phone, which is shown here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ne9jpx8vja2rck/2014-06-09%2015.55.27.jpg

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Anders Jensen-Waud aojen...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I am trying to boot OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) from an SD memory card on my Macbook 
 Air (most recent model).

 When I boot from the SD card (both bsd and bsd.mp) the boot process hangs at 
 “root device: “

 The SSD drive in the machine is identified as sd0 upon boot. The OpenBSD boot 
 loader identifies both hd0 and hd1. I also tried asking the kernel to ASK for 
 a root device by issuing: boot hd0a:/bsd.mp -a, but with no luck.

 Any ideas how I can boot from this card successfully?

 Cheers

 Anders

 (Note: I created the OpenBSD installation by mounting the SD card in 
 VirtualBox on Mac OS X and then installing OpenBSD onto it inside the VM. The 
 installation wen fine.)



-- 
Best regards,

Anders Jensen-Waud
E-mail: aojen...@gmail.com
Phone: +61 478 320 664

Contributing to OpenBSD documentation

[Anders Østergaard Jensen-Waud]

Hello,

I am interesting in helping out on the OpenBSD project where I can. I
am proficient in C but am not knowledgeable enough to contribute to
OS/systems level programming. So I have been looking for other ways to
contribute and thought documentation might be a good place to start.

What are the most critical areas in documentation, which require help?
I have thought that I could:

* Translate OpenBSD manuals/FAQ/documentation to Danish/Scandinavian
(I am Danish)
* Help out with some of the existing documentation or fill gaps where required
* Something completely different

Please let me know where help is needed as I am keen to contribute
back to the OpenBSD community.

Cheers

Anders