On 06/29/14 02:08, Dewey Hylton wrote: > i have 3 alix 2d13 machines, all currently running something between > 5.1 and 5.3. each of these fails to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd (i386). > bsd.rd checksums match. each time i attempt to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd on > any of these 3 machines, i see the following two lines: > > booting tftp:bsd.rd: <snip> entry point at 0x200120 > > i've also booted the machines to their current openbsd install, > downloaded the bsd.rd file locally, rebooted, and attempted to boot > the new bsd.rd from the boot prompt. i get the same thing doing that, > excepting for the tftp: blurb. for this reason i don't believe > networking has anything to do with the failure. because i see the > same thing via pxe, i don't believe the on-disk code has anything to > do with the failure either.
I think you are wrong on that. > i've run memtest, nothing bad to report. i've tried different serial > speeds (9600, 38400, 115200), no changes. the 5.4 bsd.rd works just > fine, while the latest snapshot yields the same problem. > > i'm hoping this is a known behavior resulting from a change for which > i've simply missed the clue. has something changed, and i am simply > doing something wrong for the newer version of openbsd? I think you missed the "Install new boot blocks" step of upgrade55.html. This causes your serial console config to be ignored, and gives you the results you are seeing. Note: you need to respect the "one-release-at-a-time" thing here -- installing the 5.3 boot blocks probably won't help you -- upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 to get the 5.4 boot blocks in place, then again to 5.5. Nick.
