On 09/12/17 14:16, Jan Stary wrote: > On Sep 12 19:29:16, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> This is current/i386 from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD >> The upgrade went just fine as always, but the installed /bsd >> just goes to a black screen at some point during the boot sequence; >> the machine does not answer to a ping. > > Ech, it's an amd64 machine. Sorry for the noise. > >> Here is a previous dmesg on the same machine: >> http://stare.cz/dmesg/intel-i7.20170827 > > And here is the amd64 dmesg. > http://stare.cz/dmesg/intel-i7.20170911 > > > To get a lesson out of this screwup: why exactly is it > that an i386 bsd.rd boots at this but an i386 bsd does not?
well... short answer is the kernels are different. bsd.rd is smaller than the full kernel, AND has "built in" utilities...so there's a lot missing from bsd.rd. "Blank screen" sounds to me like drm issue. At the "boot>" prompt, you could try a "boot -c" then "disable inteldrm" at the ukc prompt. If it comes up, sounds like an unhappy regression from something that worked a couple weeks ago. (I see your working dmesg has inteldrm handling the display). However, before I say bug, I'm confused...you keep talking about i386 not booting, but it's amd64 that you have shown as having worked. So I'm a little confused here. What's the actual problem? old amd64 worked, new amd64 doesn't? old amd64 worked, new i386 doesn't? Is there any possibilities you got i386 and amd64 binaries mixed, maybe kernel i386 and amd64 X or other way around, such as by changing platforms by "upgrade"? (WRONG! re-install). Nick.
