Re: Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

2023-05-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2023-05-01, Damian McGuckin wrote: > > What is required please? > > I am trying to boot this bsd.rd (which is a file 4Mb big) on an old > NET5500 which has 512MBytes of RAM. On a running system, > > From the > > boot> > > prompt, doing > > boot> boot bsd.rd > > it appears to load

Re: Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

2023-05-01 Thread Darren Tucker
On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 12:38, Damian McGuckin wrote: [...] > it appears to loads bsd.rd, but then drops straight back into the BIOS > and starts the BIOS boot. > > Any suggestions. Try switching the console to serial instead of relying on the BIOS: boot> stty com0 19200 boot> set tty com0 (Repla

Re: Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

2023-04-30 Thread Paul de Weerd
Are you sure you're using i386 and not amd64? Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 12:26:41PM +1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: | | What is required please? | | I am trying to boot this bsd.rd (which is a file 4Mb big) on an old | NET5500 which has 512MBytes of RAM. On a running system, |

Re: Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

2023-04-30 Thread Aaron Mason
How are you getting to the boot> prompt? On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 12:28 PM Damian McGuckin wrote: > > > What is required please? > > I am trying to boot this bsd.rd (which is a file 4Mb big) on an old > NET5500 which has 512MBytes of RAM. On a running system, > > From the > > boot> > > pro

Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

2023-04-30 Thread Damian McGuckin
What is required please? I am trying to boot this bsd.rd (which is a file 4Mb big) on an old NET5500 which has 512MBytes of RAM. On a running system, From the boot> prompt, doing boot> boot bsd.rd it appears to loads bsd.rd, but then drops straight back into the BIOS a