On 02/07/2011 09:56 AM, Tomas wrote:
Hey there all on the misc,
I am having problems booting into bsd.rd on my machine. Currently the
machine holds OpenBSD 4.4 Generic and is working fine. But now I've decided
to upgrade it (I will be doing a clean install) to version 4.8. So I've
downloaded bsd.rd (4.8) into the machine and tried to boot into it, but the
machine restarts itself in the middle of booting it. Can someone please
point me into the right direction how can I resolve this?
Here is the dmesg from it running 4.4:
OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 133 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
You have run into a bug on the 4.8 bsd.rd on Pentium 1 systems. NOT
486, not P-II or later, just the machines with the F00F bug.
Easiest fix is to use a snapshot and install 4.9-beta on your system.
If you install the regular GENERIC 4.8 kernel and userland manually, you
will find it works just fine. It is just the bsd.rd (and thus, floppy
and CD images) that don't work. Again, I'd recommend the snapshot, but
if you REALLY want 4.8, install 4.7, then do a "remote upgrade" to 4.8,
all will be fine. Of course, the reason that bug snuck out is that no
one installed a snapshot on their older computer before 4.8-release.
Nick.
(guilty as anyone...)
