I've tried USB booting, while my BIOS supports it (the boot process starts) the installation hangs at the OpenBSD prompt. It just sits there indefinitely if I leave it.
I've also tried PXE booting with VERY limited success. I get it to pull the pxeboot file over tftp, but after that it just can't find the kernel file (bsd.rd or just bsd as I recall). I've read countless articles/howtos/faqs and still haven't been able to get the pxebooting working. This would be a good option, perhaps someone can point out what I was doing wrong? DHCPD server setup: CentOS 5.2 dhcpd configured to point to file 'pxeboot' tftpd with server root at /tftpdroot and all files (pxeboot, bsd, bsd.rd etc) placed in here When I try booting the machine that I want OpenBSD on, it loads the pxeboot file (I see this in the logs) but it keeps timing out looking for the kernel file bsd (there aren't any log messages that tell me anything here). It's my understanding that all the files needed to boot using PXE should be placed in the root of the tftp server. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Tom On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:20:08AM -0500, Bob Hope wrote: > | When (if ever) will support for installing OpenBSD with a USB CD-ROM > | be added? I have a few > | servers I'd like to use OpenBSD on, but they are Blade units and the > | only method of installing > | the operating system is through USB CD-ROM. > > What you need is BIOS support (I'm assuming i386/amd64 here). If the > BIOS can boot from it, you can generally install OpenBSD from it. If > the only option is to install through USB CD-ROM, then I would assume > the BIOS supports it and you can "Just Do It (tm)". > > Can you not use pxeboot to install via network btw ? Sounds like a > more convenient option to me (having heard the noise these blade > systems can produce .. the less time you spend in their presence, the > better IMO). Read the pxeboot(8) manpage for more details. > > Cheers, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > -- >>++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/
