> From: "Christian Weisgerber" <na...@mips.inka.de> > To: "dewey hylton" <dewey.hyl...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:10:35 AM > Subject: Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix > > [This message has also been posted to list.openbsd.misc.] > On 2014-06-29, Dewey Hylton <dewey.hyl...@gmail.com> 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 > > Looks like the kernel doesn't switch to the serial console. > If you boot from the network, make sure that you have an > etc/boot.conf
agreed; yes, i have boot.conf in place, which is how the other 5.x versions of bsd.rd are working. > file on the TFTP server. Also, make sure that you use the 5.5 > pxeboot > and not an old one, because... > > > 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. > > I vaguely remember that at some point there was a change that > requires a new boot(8), otherwise a serial console won't be set > correctly with a new kernel. hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.rd? if so, this is probably my issue. i'm betting that the current pxeboot version is from 4.7 or 4.8, and the on-disk version of boot on all 3 boxes is 5.1 ... i can test this tomorow morning. thanks for this pointer! where is this documented? > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber > na...@mips.inka.de
