On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM Michael Chuchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Per INSTALL.arm64, OpenBSD 7.8 supports the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1. > There do not appear to be any special pre-install steps. > So I went and put install78.img onto a USB, and tried to boot the > installer. > It fails, with the following output: > > disks: sd0* sd1 sd2 > >> OpenBSD/arm64 BOOTAA64 1.22 > boot> > cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > booting sd0a:/bsd: sd0a:/bsd: Inappropriate file type or format > failed(79). will try /bsd > silly q. did you disable secure-boot in the bios ? i had played with it back in the 7.2/7.3 era - but when my original laptop fell in the water - the unit i got back had a slightly-different processor and so the boot process didnt recognize it... technically, im typing (from win11) on it atm - so i could try again - but just thought id ask the semi-obvious q. (secure-boot) to make sure... gl, h. https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/13b18i4/level_of_support_for_the_thinkpad_x13s
