On Sep 12 21:48:04, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: > 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).
It's an amd64 machine where current/amd64 has always worked. The dmesg are at http://stare.cz/dmesg/intel-i7.* Yesterday, I "upgraded" the machine to current/i386. That's where I observed that bsd.rd boots but bsd does not. It was an i386 bsd.rd that booted and an i386 bsd that did not. After ealizing this, I upgraded again, this time to current/amd64 - which works fine, like it always has. I believe you are right about the inteldrm. Usually, the boot sequence switches to a smaller font once it gets to graphics. After the i386 upgrade, it stayed 80x25 before it went black. That's hardly a bug report of course. Thank you Jan
