​Correction to the steps needed to recreate the error with ping on the installer ​easiest way to get to the "Illegal instruction" problem is this. 1. make a bootable usb stick with install58.fs or install59.fs 2. boot machine to install OpenBSD 3. answer i for install on the first question 4. hit enter 5. enter foo and hit enter 6. hit enter for em0 7. hit enter for dhcp 8. hit enter for none on ipv6 address 9. use "!" to get shell 10. type "ping -c 2 google.com" or "ping google.com" you get the error after the first ping response.
for my original discovery of the problem follow the steps above to step 8 9. hit enter for done on the question about configuring another network interface 10. enter a root pw and hit enter 11. repeat step 10. 12. hit enter to accept the defaults 10 more times. 13. hit enter to select the default location of the sets. [http] 14. hit enter for none 15. hit enter for default or select a different mirror it does not matter. 16. hit enter for default server directory. 17. hit enter for done. you get the message "Get/Verify SHA256.sig 100% |***" ... "00:00" then next line it says "Signature Verified" then next line it says "Get/Verify bsd 0% | | 0 --:-- ETA" then next line it says "Illegal instruction" then next line it says "Fetching of bsd failed. Continue anyway? [no]" if you select disk on step 13 you go through the motions until it gets to continue without verification on the SHA256.sig question where you answer yes. then after it installs bsd, bsd.rd, and bsd.mp it tries to install base89.tgz and you get the error below. [CODE] zip: stdin: Input/output error tar: End of archive volume 1 reached Illegal instruction ftp: Can't open file ///mnt/usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz: No such file or directory gzip: stdin: unrecognized file format tar: End of archive volume 1 reached tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. Installation of base58.tgz failed. Continue anyway? [no] [/CODE] I have tried to install the following with the following results. 5.7 amd64 | installs fine 5.8 amd64 | fails as described 5.9 amd64 | fails as described 5.8 i386 | installs fine 5.9 i386 | installs fine 5.7 amd64 upgrade to 5.8 amd64 fails when attempting the recommended method of upgrade. i verified all the sha256 hashes on every installXX.fs image i have downloaded and i have downloaded from multiple mirrors On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Casey Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > easiest way to get to the "Illegal instruction" problem is this. > 1. make a bootable usb stick with install58.fs or install59.fs > 2. boot machine to install OpenBSD > 3. select s to the first question to get a shell > 4. type "ping -c 2 google.com" or "ping google.com" > > if i do ping -c 1 google.com it has no error > > steps i used to reproduce the problem when i originally found it are here. > 1. make a bootable usb stick with install58.fs or install59.fs > 2. boot machine to install OpenBSD > 3. answer all the questions up to location of sets > 4. select either http or disk > 4a. if you select http you get the error on the step where the > installer says > "Get/Verify bsd" and the error is imediately "Illegal instruction" > 4b. if you select disk you have to answer the next couple of questions > then > you get the error on the step where the installer says > "Installing base58.tgz" and ther error is as below > > [CODE] > zip: stdin: Input/output error > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > Illegal instruction > ftp: Can't open file ///mnt/usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz: No such file or > directory > gzip: stdin: unrecognized file format > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. > Installation of base58.tgz failed. Continue anyway? [no] > [/CODE] > > on this same machine i can install OpenBSD 5.7 amd64 and 5.8 i386 but not > 5.8 amd64 or 5.9 snapshot amd64 > > this is a link to some pictures of the problem hapening and a dmesg output > from > the 5.8 i386 install > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B65SFmee2f1Ud29WdzZGMUg4OU0&usp=sharing > > if it helps i am working on getting a coredumps by attempting the upgrade > from > 5.7 without the install kernel as shown here > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade58.html#upgrade > > -Casey(i3luefire) >
