On 08/12/10 13:26, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > hi, > > i downloaded a 4.8 snapshot this morning > and am trying to install via pxeboot on > an x30. > > boot> disable acpi
What's this about? That's not a valid command at that point. Granted no error message, but "disable asdf" and "l;jk ;lkj" don't produce an error message either (which is odd...) And... I really suspect disabling ACPI is not something you want to do with this machine. You may want to disable apm to force it to use acpi (as I have to do with my T23, otherwise it gets really hot...) > boot> boot bsd.rd > > ran fine until > > Which one is the root disk? [wd0] > > I pressed enter, and sometime after fifteen > minutes had elapsed the system responded > with a series of "Segmentation fault" messages > and returned to the "(I) install, ..." prompt. > > I've been using the x30 heavily for years, > most recently this morning with Ubuntu. > > hand-typed dmesg below. > > any suggestions? I take it you are PXE booting because you don't have the lower thingie which has the floppy and CD for this machine...(if you DO have the lower thingie, could you try a cd or floppy?) Because of your message, I did a couple more pxeboot installs, on my IBM A21p (upgrade, actually) and on my IBM T23. Both worked fine, as did a desktop system I pxebooted yesterday. Can you tftpboot another machine from your same tftp server so we can check to see if it is delivering bsd.rd intact? If you can't do that, could you do an sha256 against your tftp-delivered bsd.rd and see if it matches that on the FTP server? Have you successfully used your tftp server for anything else? I'm wondering if you got either a corrupted bsd.rd on the tftp server, or a tftp server which mangles stuff on the way to its destination... Failing that, how about booting with a "boot bsd.rd -c" at the "boot>" prompt, then doing a "disable apm" then "quit" and see if your machine is like my T23 and likes acpi much more than apm (though, admittedly, my T23 doesn't crash..just runs really hot). The thought here is that my T23 obviously liked ACPI, had a not-good APM implementation, and your X30 is newer..but still provides enough APM for OpenBSD to glomb into it and ignore ACPI, but I bet your ACPI is pretty developed on that thing. (dmesg snipped, thanks for providing it!) Nick.
