Re: OpenBSD 5.6 on a 4801?

Christopher Hilton <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:22:02 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Apr 10, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Nikola Gyurov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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…
>>> 

IIRC, You can put the serial console configuration into the file:


      <tftproot>/etc/boot.conf

The relevant config lines are:

     stty com0 19200
     set tty com0

I do remember issues installing OpenBSD 5.6 on the Net4801 but I cannot remember the exact nature, or the workaround if any.

Chris

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