On 2025/10/06 17:14, Talib Koshy wrote: > Sorry, > I have never used OpenBSD before and am more used to forums than mailing > lists. > By liveusb, I meant installer. > Trying to use curl -v --list-only and wget --no-remove-listing > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ doesn't provide a directory listing.
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ or somewhere on the list at https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html there are some 3rd-party liveusb "openbsd" builds but they are nothing to do with the openbsd project, which is why I wanted to make sure this wasn't from one of those. > The version I was using was install77.img. > Can I put the images on catbox.moe? yes > On the new install78.img I get an error message > "installboot: EFIIOC_VAR_SET: Boot0002: Invalid argument", > as I also did during installation using the 7.7 USB installer image. > Where do I ask for help? here is fine, it's just the large screenshots that are a problem :) > It is now freezing at scsibus2 at softradi0: > 256 targets, also as it previously did before. > That was solved with "boot -c" and "disable inteldrm". > However, I am still getting an error: > > savecore: no core dump > checking quotas: done. > clearing /tmp > kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1 > creating runtime link editor directory cache. > preserving editor files. > starting network daemons: sshd smtpd sniod. > running rc.firsttime > fw_update:### AML PARSE ERROR (0x6e0): Undefined name: > \_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV > error evaluating: \_TZ_.FN00._OFF > acpitz0: _AL0[0.0] _OFF fails > panic: Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xffff800000773300 > size 0x50 previous type AHCI (0xdeaf4151 != 0xdeaf4152) I would try this: - at the boot loader, collect "machine memory" output in case that's useful to someone (screenshot would probably make sense for this) - at the boot loader, disable inteldrm as you already have, "disable acpitz", "quit" in the hope that it's this that was causing the problem and the system will stay running long enough to collect more info - after boot, run sendbug -P > somefile as root, copy that file to somewhere with email, and send it as a reply to this thread and/or, check to see if updated firmware is available for the machine.. > The dmesg is continued in the files linked below. > I will now limit myself to plain text mode messages as I was not aware > that these messages are mass emails, > so thank you for informing me. > Is there a format other than mass emails for me to ask for help? > I'll reduce the size of the images using FFmpeg and compress them into > a 7-Zip archive. no need to resend this one, but URLs which are directly viewable in a browser (i.e. individual images rather than 7z) would be more helpful, also useful to have a quick description of the contents next to each url (many developers will be reading email over ssh in a text based client, copying a url to view in a browser is usually pretty straightforward, anything with additional steps means fewer people are likely to look into it) > It will only show the new images as obtained from the OpenBSD 7.8 > development snapshot, > which appears to be the same as the previously discussed kernel panic, > obsoleting the old images. > This may be an installation problem and not a bug. > intel CORE i5 10TH GEN. > > FFmpeg-JPEG.7z: https://files.catbox.moe/xepha0.7z > > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2025/10/06 03:02, Talib Koshy wrote: > > > inspiron5493 fresh install from liveusb with x greeter enabled using > > > install script. it's > > > seemingly reproducible across multiple installs but the first time it > > > froze instead of > > > panicking. the second two times were after another install and it > > > panicked instead of freezing. > > > but, either way, it never really boots to the disk, just the usb. > > > > OpenBSD doesn't provide a liveusb. See if you can reproduce with > > the code available from ftp.openbsd.org or a mirror. It's not clear > > which version you are running but try a snapshot. You can do an > > install to a USB stick from the standard installer. > > > > (Also it would be helpful to put images online somewhere instead of > > sending a 33MB email of screen photos to the many people on this mailing > > list..) > > >
