Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-03 Thread Mike Larkin
On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 12:53:51AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Mike Larkin wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:04:40AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote: > > > > > > boot> hd0a:/bsd.61 > > > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory >

Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-01 Thread Andrew Daugherity
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:04:40AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote: > > > > boot> hd0a:/bsd.61 > > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > > booting hd0a:/bsd.61: 7678420+2057220+174556+0+1097728 > > [72+501520+501951

Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-01 Thread Paul de Weerd
Building your own kernel (on your fast machine with lots of memory), stripped of every driver your machine doesn't have, can get you a bit further on memory constrained machines. This gets you into unsupported land, but if you want support you're probably best of spending a nickel and getting a be

Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-01 Thread Janne Johansson
A few quick tests on 6.1-i386 in a VM showed that 20M seems to be minimum now, at 17-19M disk setup would segfault late in the installation and at 16M em0 couldn't get TX stuff allocated, so that failed even earlier. 2017-09-01 9:43 GMT+02:00 Mike Larkin : > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:57:40PM -0

Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-01 Thread Mike Larkin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:57:40PM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:04:40AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote: > > I recently dug out of the closet my old IBM PS/2E, which had served as > > my firewall box from 2000ish-06, and was in fact the very first > > machine I ever install

Re: 6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-09-01 Thread Mike Larkin
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:04:40AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote: > I recently dug out of the closet my old IBM PS/2E, which had served as > my firewall box from 2000ish-06, and was in fact the very first > machine I ever installed OpenBSD on, to see if it still worked > properly. It did (after c

6.1 fails to boot on a 486

2017-08-31 Thread Andrew Daugherity
I recently dug out of the closet my old IBM PS/2E, which had served as my firewall box from 2000ish-06, and was in fact the very first machine I ever installed OpenBSD on, to see if it still worked properly. It did (after changing the CMOS battery), but booted into OpenBSD 4.1... yeah, just a *bit