Error booting OpenBSD 5.5 on Macbook Air
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.)
Re: Error booting OpenBSD 5.5 on Macbook Air
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
Re: Error booting OpenBSD 5.5 on Macbook Air
* Anders Østergaard Jensen-Waud aojen...@gmail.com [140609 08:58]: 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.) It is probably the same problem I'm having on Macbook Pro (late 13): all usb ports are USB3 on this device, and usb3 is not yet supported by openbsd. You can try enabling xhci* by compiling custom kernel, but it's still experimental and probably would not work (I've tried, no luck). -- Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru
