boot wd0:,ofwboot /bsd boots into... Mac OS 9.2.2?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, finished installing OpenBSD 4.9 the other day on a recently acquired old iBook. It all went very well, right up until the point where I tried to boot my new OpenBSD system up. In Open Firmware, I had to play around with the device name to find some

Re: boot wd0:,ofwboot /bsd boots into... Mac OS 9.2.2?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After reading the excellent NetBSD documentation, I realized that the problem was dyslexic in nature. OpenBSD's ofwboot does in fact work correctly on my computer. However, the NetBSD documentation is very excellent. http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-

mount:mfs: mmap: Cannot allocate memory

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, I'm trying to create put my /tmp partition on my swap. So I have a line like this in my fstab: swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=2097152 I also tried changing swap to /dev/wd0b, and changing the n in -s=n to smaller numbers. Anyway, mount /tmp ret

Re: mount:mfs: mmap: Cannot allocate memory

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 May 2011 21:25, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-05-03, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >> >> So, I'm trying to create put my /tmp partition on my swap. >> >> So I have a line like this in my fstab: >> swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=2097152 >>

Re: mount:mfs: mmap: Cannot allocate memory

Kevin Chadwick wrote: >On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:32 + >annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: > >> I'm just trying to make it take advantage of the swap >> encryption (random keys unlike a single key I have to remember the >> password for); > >bioctl or vnconfig and /dev/urandom maybe useful here So

Asking whether or not to start X.org at boot time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have changed /etc/rc to ask me at boot time whether I want to start xdm, gdm, or a console. (Adding kdm presumably wouldn't be too hard.) This is because OpenBSD/powerpc apparently does not support multiple wsdisplays, hence it is not possible to run

Obsolescence engineering (was: vmmap: bad software everywhere)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31 May 2011 19:51, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:23:46PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >> Marc Espie wrote: >> >> > Not surprisingly, a lot of software that claims to be 64 bits- ready isn't. >> > This touches all web na

Re: Obsolescence engineering (was: vmmap: bad software everywhere)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:42:02 + annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >On 31 May 2011 19:51, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:23:46PM +, Christian Weisgerber >wrote: >> >>> Marc Espie wrote: >>> >>> > Not surprisingly, a lot of soft

X.org broken after changing resolution from Mac OS 9.2.2 (details and workaround enclosed)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After changing the resolution to 640x480 in Mac OS 9.2.2 and rebooting into OpenBSD, X.org was broken and the system required a hard reboot. However, after changing the resolution back to 1024x768 from Mac OS 9.2.2, X.org was able to work again. Thus,