I installed OpenBSD 7.0 via miniroot70.img from a USB stick on a Kingston SA400S3 SSD but unfortunately the machine does not boot from it (there is just a blinking cursor at the top of console). The SSD is connected via SATA (see below) so I hoped the machine (see dmesg) could boot from it. Is this a problem between the HW (BIOS?) and the SSD or something I need to do differently with the OpenBSD install? My next step is probably to find a "small" HD and install OpenBSD there but then change fstab to use the SSD. An alternative might be to change the root device, but it seems there is no way to do this automatically?
boot(8): boot [[device:]image] [-acds] .. -a Causes the kernel to ask for the root device to use. but I don't see an option to set the root device via boot.conf; moreover, when I tried this the system does not accept any input from the USB keyboard -- even though it shows the keyboard as being recognized just a few line above the prompt. (Yes, I know the system is a bit old - but it's not even 12 years :-) OpenBSD 6.8 (GENERIC.MP) #4: Mon Jan 11 10:35:56 MST 2021 r...@syspatch-68-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8572567552 (8175MB) avail mem = 8297721856 (7913MB) random: good seed from bootblocks mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9f000 (64 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "1007" date 03/25/2010 bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A88TD-M acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 3.0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG OEMB HPET SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PCE2(S4) PCE3(S4) PCE5(S4) PCE6(S4) PCE7(S4) PCE9(S4) PCEA(S4) RLAN(S4) SBAZ(S4) P0PC(S4) GEC_(S4) UHC1(S4) UHC2(S4) USB3(S4) UHC4(S4) USB5(S4) [...] acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.88 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, IBE cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.46 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu1: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu1: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu1: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu1: smt 0, core 1, package 0 cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu2: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.46 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu2: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu2: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu2: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu2: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu2: smt 0, core 2, package 0 cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor) cpu3: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.46 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu3: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu3: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu3: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu3: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu3: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu3: smt 0, core 3, package 0 cpu4 at mainbus0: apid 4 (application processor) cpu4: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.46 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu4: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu4: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu4: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu4: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu4: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu4: smt 0, core 4, package 0 cpu5 at mainbus0: apid 5 (application processor) cpu5: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2812.47 MHz, 10-0a-00 cpu5: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,ITSC cpu5: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 6MB 64b/line 48-way L3 cache cpu5: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 16 4MB entries fully associative cpu5: DTLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 48 4MB entries fully associative cpu5: AMD erratum 721 detected and fixed cpu5: smt 0, core 5, package 0 ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 6 pa 0xfec00000, version 21, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 acpimcfg0: addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318180 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (PCE2) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE3) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE5) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 2 (PCE6) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE9) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 3 (PCEA) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 4 (P0PC) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpipci0 at acpi0 PCI0 acpicmos0 at acpi0 aibs0 at acpi0 RTMP RVLT RFAN GGRP GITM SITM acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB "PNP0C14" at acpi0 not configured acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS acpicpu2 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS acpicpu3 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS acpicpu4 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS acpicpu5 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!), PSS cpu0: 2812 MHz: speeds: 2800 2200 1500 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD RS880 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x016a rev 0xa1 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 em0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82574L" rev 0x00: msi, address 00:1b:21:78:d3:36 ppb2 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "AMD RS780 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x06: RTL8168E/8111E (0x2c00), msi, address e0:cb:4e:cf:4a:00 rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S/8211 PHY, rev. 4 ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SATA" rev 0x40: apic 6 int 19, AHCI 1.2 ahci0: port 1: 1.5Gb/s ahci0: port 2: 1.5Gb/s ahci0: port 3: 6.0Gb/s scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <ATA, ST3300831AS, 3.03> t10.ATA_ST3300831AS_4NF04W15 sd0: 286168MB, 512 bytes/sector, 586072368 sectors sd1 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0: <ATA, ST31000340NS, SN06> naa.5000c500112b124f sd1: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1953525168 sectors sd2 at scsibus1 targ 3 lun 0: <ATA, KINGSTON SA400S3, S1Z4> naa.50026b7380b702ff sd2: 228936MB, 512 bytes/sector, 468862128 sectors, thin ohci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 17 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ohci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 17 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SMBus" rev 0x41: SMI iic0 at piixpm0 sdtemp0 at iic0 addr 0x18: se97 sdtemp1 at iic0 addr 0x19: se97 sdtemp2 at iic0 addr 0x1a: cat34ts02 sdtemp3 at iic0 addr 0x1b: cat34ts02 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-10600 with thermal sensor spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-10600 with thermal sensor spdmem2 at iic0 addr 0x52: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-10600 with thermal sensor spdmem3 at iic0 addr 0x53: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC PC3-10600 with thermal sensor pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 "ATI SB700 IDE" rev 0x40: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility azalia0 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 "ATI SBx00 HD Audio" rev 0x40: apic 6 int 16 azalia0: codecs: Realtek/0x0892 audio0 at azalia0 pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3 "ATI SB700 ISA" rev 0x40 ppb3 at pci0 dev 20 function 4 "ATI SB600 PCI" rev 0x40 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ohci2 at pci0 dev 20 function 5 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ohci3 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci2 at pci0 dev 22 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 6 int 17 usb2 at ehci2: USB revision 2.0 uhub2 at usb2 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD 10h HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD 10h Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD 10h DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 km0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD 10h Misc Cfg" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 "AMD 10h Link Cfg" rev 0x00 usb3 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8721F rev 3, EC port 0x290 usb5 at ohci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub5 at usb5 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb6 at ohci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub6 at usb6 configuration 1 interface 0 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 uhidev0 at uhub3 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Fujitsu Component Type 6 Keyboard" rev 1.10/2.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes, country code 33 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Alcor Micro USB Mouse" rev 1.10/51.27 addr 3 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (3daac1e894ad7639.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- Address is valid for this mailing list only, please do not reply to it direcly, but to the list.