It keeps having the same problem, I don't see any output in the screen,
I get to the biosboot and last line is the one that I think is seeding
the random number generator. I can't log into any terminal, although it
seems that it keeps going on for the hardrive led, and the block num
led, but you just can't see anything on the screen. I will try to debug
this through serial port or maybe I could ssh into the box from another
one.
Regards,
On , Oriol Demaria wrote:
Yes I thought about recompiling the kernel, and booting with a custom
kernel. With SeaBIOS I get to type the disk encryption password, but
that's it. It's worth a try this, because apart from PXE the rest I
have tried. I actually seems to boot till certain point but you can't
see anything or switch to any tty. I'm getting a docking station, that
I think it has a serial port, then I will be able to see what is going
on, through the serial cable.
So to boot OpenBSD I have to use SeaBIOS to boot from the first
partition where I have another grub, as for some reason I can't
chainload directly from libreboots grub, and then start it. I
installed OpenBSD with the harddrive in other box to try to isolate
the problem. I have also used grub to load bsd.rd without success. I
have tried several ways. But usually I just boot from a pendrive with
grub calling bsd.rd from the loopback interface of an iso file (this
works perfectly in for any box).
Thank you very much for your advice.
Regards,
On , L.R. D.S. wrote:
So you chainload SeaBIOS, and try to boot the bsd.rd and it don't show
nothing? Your conclusion
is that it's because don't have framebuffer?
I don't know exactly how is the boot process on OpenBSD (although I
use it daily), but I don't
think that it require framebuffer to boot.
What do you are using to boot? A plain snapshot of install57.iso
burned on some CD-ROM?
You tried the pxeboot?
If nothing works, you could try compile with aperture driver disabled:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/xf86.4?query=xf86
And, reduce the secure level:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/securelevel.7?query=securelevel&sec=7
If not working, try the openbsd-misc and request some help (please,
send some dmegs and dmidecode/biosdecode logs).
Regards,
--mutus
