On 2015-08-10, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it unusual/unreasonable to install, not update, from a snapshot bsd.rd? > > If installing from a snapshot bsd.rd is not too unreasonable, does > everyone doing that edit /etc/pkg.conf by hand to point to the local > mirror's snapshots before re-booting, to pick up the firmware stuff in > the first boot?
fw_update doesn't use this, it fetches from firmware.openbsd.org instead. > In my case, that would be changing > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a > > in /etc/pkg.conf to > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/%a > > The reason I ask is that, having installed from last week's snapshot > to an outboard drive for experimenting, I noticed, on the first boot, > that it was looking for some uvideo (I think) firmware which it > couldn't find with the installpath as it was. If you can get it to do this again, please post the exact message ("dmesg -s" should make this easier).
