This sounds exactly like what happens when you don't do this at the boot> prompt:
stty com0 115220 set tty com0 Arnaud BRAND [arnaud.brand--o...@tib.cc] wrote: > Good evening list, > > I recently bought a PCEngine APU4B4 https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4b4.htm > AMD GX-412TC, 1 GHz quad Jaguar core / 64 bit and AES-NI / 4GB RAM > > I had absolutely no problem booting and installing i386 OpenBSD 6.3 and > snapshots over PXE. > With the AMD64 version, it wouldn't boot, it crashed immeditely after the > "entry point at 0x1000158" line and rebooted. > > I found Neels' page (http://hofmeyr.de/OpenBSD%20on%20APU4/, BTW thanks > Neels) who had no problem installing AMD64 from USB. > So I tried that, both with 6.3 and snapshot, but it ended the same. > To be precise, the "8" at the end of the "entry point at" line never shows > up. > The reboot/reset occurs after the 5 character. > > I was beginning to think that my APU was broken, but decided to try again, > this time disabling the PXE capability in the bios. > It worked immediately (like usual with OpenBSD). > > So, long story short, AMD64 kernels won't boot on APU4B4 when PXE boot is > enabled in the BIOS. > > I don't know if there's anything to fix in OpenBSD as the embedded iPXE > seems a bit buggy. > I reckon this might be the cause of the problem. > > For people who experience difficulties wiht PXE booting (i386), try the > following : > - break out to iPXE shell > - run "dhcp" until iPXE picks up an address > - and then resume PXE booting process by typing "autoboot" > > > Arnaud