On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@openbsd.org> wrote: > Shot in the dark: Does it not hang if you disable the pms driver > via boot -c? See the boot_config(8) man page. > > The RAMDISK_CD kernel doesn't have pms compiled in, and it might be > the next thing pckbd0 is trying to initialise in the GENERIC kernel.
You must have night-vision goggles -- that did the trick. If there's anything I can do to help debug this further, let me know. Otherwise, I'm happy with the workaround.