KARL sometimes renderring computer unbootable

Occasionally after a power loss some computers, especially virtual machines for obvious reasons, are no longer able to boot. The bootloader reads the kernel, one of the two spins for a bit and then the computer returns to the bootloader prompt. In the case of VMs, vmd eventually gives up and tur

Re: Who has an ancient -current snapshot

Hello Luke, lukensm...@gmail.com (Luke Small), 2019.09.07 (Sat) 00:56 (CEST): > I need an old kernel image older than maybe a couple weeks old. I have the I think http://ftp.hostserver.de/archive/ has what you want. Marcus

Re: Who has an ancient -current snapshot

Thanks, Somebody else directed me to it too! I got my server working again!!! -Luke On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 3:52 AM Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Hello Luke, > > lukensm...@gmail.com (Luke Small), 2019.09.07 (Sat) 00:56 (CEST): > > I need an old kernel image older than maybe a couple weeks old. I have

Re: What is you motivational to use OpenBSD

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 6, 2019 12:26 PM, Péter Bertalan Zoltán wrote: > Mohamed salah mohamed.a.sala...@gmail.com [2019-08-28 16:32:29 +0200]: > > > I wanna put something in discussion, what's your motivational to use > > OPENBSD what not other bsd's what not gnu/L

Re: KARL sometimes renderring computer unbootable

cho...@jtan.com(cho...@jtan.com) on 2019.09.07 06:49:34 +0100: > Occasionally after a power loss some computers, especially virtual > machines for obvious reasons, are no longer able to boot. The bootloader > reads the kernel, one of the two spins for a bit and then the computer > returns to the bo

Question regarding server hardware

I recently purchased a Dell T-330 server that I had intended to install OpenBSD on and use as a serious web server. My goal was to have more control than would be (naturally) given with, say an AWS VM. And by control, I mean what is *not* running on the box - security-wise. Apparently, Dell ships

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 snapshot #262 - no USB mouse

First, thanks for all good advices. Ok I finally had time to sit down and figure it out, and my first guess was wrong, it was a change in pms.c which made the touchpad stop working. The patch that made it stop work was revision 1.89 committed Mon Aug 19 21:08 UTC. Most of the patch is probably c

Re: KARL sometimes renderring computer unbootable

Sebastian Benoit writes: > You dont say, but you are probably using 6.5? I am and that's a good point that I didn't think to consider, thank-you. > In current and thus in 6.6 the relevant line reads > > newinstall: > install -F -m 700 bsd /bsd && sha256 -h /var/db/kernel.SHA256 /bsd Prob