Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-30 Thread Dewey Hylton
Christian Weisgerber: > > > I vaguely remember that at some point there was a change that > > > requires a new boot(8), otherwise a serial console won't be set > > > correctly with a new kernel. > > > > hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.rd? > > It affects both pxeboot(8

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-06-29, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Dewey Hylton: > >> > I vaguely remember that at some point there was a change that >> > requires a new boot(8), otherwise a serial console won't be set >> > correctly with a new kernel. >> >> hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/29/14 15:27, Dewey Hylton wrote: >> From: "Christian Weisgerber" To: "dewey ... > hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.rd? if > so, this is probably my issue. i'm betting that the current pxeboot > version is from 4.7 or 4.8, and the on-disk version of boot on all 3 >

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dewey Hylton: > > I vaguely remember that at some point there was a change that > > requires a new boot(8), otherwise a serial console won't be set > > correctly with a new kernel. > > hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.rd? It affects both pxeboot(8) and boot(8) on disk.

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Dewey Hylton
> From: "Christian Weisgerber" > To: "dewey hylton" > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:10:35 AM > Subject: Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix > > [This message has also been posted to list.openbsd.misc.] > On 2014-06-29, Dewey Hylton wrote: > &g

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Blaise Hizded
Hello, I have an Alix 2d13 booting fine OpenBSD 5.5. If there is no error messages, maybe you just lost connection with serial line. Did you set "set tty com0" at the boot prompt? I have this from my root tftp: $ cat ./etc/boot.conf set tty com0 boot bsd.rd The default alix work at 38400, but

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/29/14 02:08, Dewey Hylton wrote: > i have 3 alix 2d13 machines, all currently running something between > 5.1 and 5.3. each of these fails to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd (i386). > bsd.rd checksums match. each time i attempt to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd on > any of these 3 machines, i see the following two

Re: 5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-06-29, Dewey Hylton wrote: > i have 3 alix 2d13 machines, all currently running something > between 5.1 and 5.3. each of these fails to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd > (i386). bsd.rd checksums match. each time i attempt to boot the 5.5 > bsd.rd on any of these 3 machines, i see the following two li

5.5 bsd.rd fails to boot on alix

2014-06-29 Thread Dewey Hylton
i have 3 alix 2d13 machines, all currently running something between 5.1 and 5.3. each of these fails to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd (i386). bsd.rd checksums match. each time i attempt to boot the 5.5 bsd.rd on any of these 3 machines, i see the following two lines: booting tftp:bsd.rd: entry