Re: OpenBSD 5.6 on a 4801?

Yes, but this is a setting in the installer, affecting subsequent boots.
In Peter's cae it hangs on booting the ramdisk off TFTP, which is
before he even hits the installer, so this needs to be instructed by
the TFTP server/configuration.

On Friday, April 10, 2015, THIBAULT Adrien <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> This issue remembers me some dark hours in the frozen server room... . To solve it:
>
> During the installation :
> At the question : "Change the default console to com0? [no]"
> Say [YES] and set the Com0  at to tty0 and at 9600 bauds (as your convenience).
> It seems that force the OS to keep the serial port to be a video console port at the next reboot.
>
> Best regards
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Nikola Gyurov
> Envoyé : jeudi 9 avril 2015 22:47
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD 5.6 on a 4801?
>
> Change default console to tty0.
>
> -
> Regards,
> Nick
> Sent from my Motorola Nexus 6
>
> On Apr 10, 2015 3:40 AM, "Peter Bako" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Has anybody successfully installed OpenBSD 5.6 on a net4801?  I have
> > two of these units (both with the latest 133 firmware), each failing
> > in the exact same way, at the exact same place, while doing a PXE
> > install.  I can see my TFTP server being queried for pxeboot, bsd.rd
> > and boot.conf, so I know the PXE setup is correct.  On my serial
> > terminal I can see the box starting the BSD boot, loads the kernel
> > then displays "entry point at 0x200120" and stops.  Thinking it just
> > might be slow I've left sitting for as long as 10 minutes, but it just
> > hangs there.  Since both units are doing this I am wondering if there
> > was a change in OpenBSD which causes the install to fail on these older units...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >
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