On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Alexander Hall <alexan...@beard.se> wrote:
> On 02/28/14 23:51, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > >> Here are some potential USB installer images for OpenBSD/amd64 5.5 >> >> http://www.nmedia.net/chris/install55.fs >> http://www.nmedia.net/chris/miniroot55.fs >> >> The install55.fs contains full installation packages. The >> miniroot55.fs is a ramdisk-kernel only (for network installation or >> troubleshooting.) >> > > It might be obvious, but since it confused me for a bit, I'd like to > correct this an say that miniroot55.fs *contains* a ramdisk kernel only. It > is still a complete disk image. > > /Alexander > > > >> Please test either on as many amd64 machines as you can with any USB >> flash and any USB-CF adapters that you have. >> >> Report failures and success of each image ASAP. Test as many flash >> types (USB, CF-USB, old USB, new USB...) as you can. >> >> SPECIFICALLY, IF you have a boot failure, I need to see the dmesg output >> (and the fdisk and disklabel output from the machine if possible to boot >> it another way). Any error messages displayed from the boot blocks or >> BIOS are also essential. >> >> > Works well for me, an error about the entropy pool not being created seemed reasonable to me. Only tried on it from USB on an old Net-Burst era system. Installed very nicely, way faster than cd or lan, and also quicker than my previous USB installs, although this media's new to me.
