Hello, I tried to install a few machines with OpenBSD/hppa 3.8 without success.
In the past I installed them with OpenBSD 3.6, switched them the hard way to use the serial console (using machine) and threw away the horrible big and noisy (and compatible :/) screens. When I boot the lif38.fs image, the boot prompt appears (where I can still enter some commands), the kernel boots, ask me to install or upgrade, and this is where I got stuck. I could not enter anything. I tried booting with a keyboard attached to the HIL or PS/2 (depending on machine) without success (still using rs232 as console). I tried using lif36.fs to verify if this ever worked, and it did. Is there something new not mentioned in the INSTALL file I should know about? or any solutions to fix the netboot? Maybe I overlooked something. The machines I've tried: 9000/715/64 9000/712/80 9000/712/100 Kind regards, Jimmy Scott console/dmesg log from a 9000/712/80: BOOT_ADMIN> Information Processor revision 2.4100MHz Instruction Cache Size: 131072 Data Cache Size: 131072 Memory Size: 128 MB Built in floating point coprocessor Board Serial Number 401105L1MV BootRom Version 2.2 auto boot on auto search off fastboot off Primary boot path: scsi.6.0 Alternate boot path: lan.000000-000000.0.0 Console path: rs232.9600.8.none LAN Station Addresses: 080009-7DFA86 080009-FFFFFF BOOT_ADMIN> boot lan isl Booting >> OpenBSD/hppa BOOT 0.8 boot> booting lf0a:/bsd: 2084864+454656+2666496+389120=0x6d9148 SPID bits: 0x0, error = -2 pdc_coproc: 0xc0, 0xc0; model d rev 1 [ bsd ELF symbol table not valid: symtab unaligned ] [ no symbol table formats found ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2005 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 3.8 (RAMDISK) #275: Sat Sep 10 17:22:17 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/hppa/compile/RAMDISK HP 9000/712/100 (King Gecko) PA-RISC 1.1c real mem = 134217728 (524288 reserved for PROM, 8785920 used by OpenBSD) avail mem = 108199936 using 8421 buffers containing 13393920 bytes of memory mainbus0 (root) [flex fff80000] pdc0 at mainbus0 power0 at mainbus0: DR25 mem0 at mainbus0 offset ffbf000: viper rev 0, size 128MB cpu0 at mainbus0 offset ffbe000 irq 31: PCXL L1-A 100MHz, FPU PCXL (CMOS-26B) rev 1 cpu0: 128K(32b/l) Icache, 128K(32b/l) wr-back Dcache, 64 coherent TLB, 8 BTLB lasi1 at mainbus0 offset 500000 irq 27: rev 3.0 lasi0 at mainbus0 offset 100000 irq 28: rev 3.0 gsc0 at lasi0 gsckbc0 at gsc0 offset 8100 irq 26 gsckbc1 at gsc0 offset 8000 irq 26 "floppy controller" at gsc0 (type a sv 83 mod 1 hv d0) offset a000 not configured "Advanced audio (ext.)" at gsc0 (type a sv 7b mod 1 hv d0) offset 4000 not configured lpt0 at gsc0 offset 2000 irq 7 com0 at gsc0 offset 5000 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo ie0 at gsc0 offset 7000 irq 8: LASI/i82596CA v1.0, address 08:00:09:7d:fa:86 osiop0 at gsc0 offset 6000 irq 9: NCR53C710 rev 2, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7 scsibus0 at osiop0: 8 targets osiop0: target 6 now using 8 bit 10 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers sd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <QUANTUM, EMPIRE_1080S, 1242> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 1029MB, 2874 cyl, 8 head, 91 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2109376 sec total sti0 at mainbus0 offset 8000000 irq 11: HPA208LC1280 rev 8.04;7, ID 0x2B4DED6D40A00499 sti0: 2048x1024 frame buffer, 1280x1024x8 display, offset 0x0 sti0: 8x16 font type 1, 16 bpc, charset 0-255 gsc1 at lasi1 com1 at gsc1 offset 5000 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo biomask 0xb netmask 0x2b ttymask 0x3f boot path: 2/0/2.10000.be8a0050.8dd1dd7b.74ee3403.ac100005.ac100128 class=4098 flags=0 hpa=0xf0107000 spa=0x0 io=0x84ec rd0: fixed, 5120 blocks wsdisplay0 at sti0 mux 1 wsdisplay0: screen 0 added (default, vt100 emulation) rootdev=0x300 rrootdev=0x900 rawdev=0x902 WARNING: clock gained 81 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? -- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Famine, War, and SNMP [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]