It occurred to me just now to take a diff on the dmesgs: On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it unusual/unreasonable to install, not update, from a snapshot bsd.rd? > > If installing from a snapshot bsd.rd is not too unreasonable, does > everyone doing that edit /etc/pkg.conf by hand to point to the local > mirror's snapshots before re-booting, to pick up the firmware stuff in > the first boot? > > In my case, that would be changing > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a > > in /etc/pkg.conf to > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/%a > > The reason I ask is that, having installed from last week's snapshot > to an outboard drive for experimenting, I noticed, on the first boot, > that it was looking for some uvideo (I think) firmware which it > couldn't find with the installpath as it was.
Judging from the lack of differences in the diff, I'm going to assume that, when the install path in /etc/pkg.conf is looking forward to the future, so to speak, it's safe to edit it and do the hw_update after the first boot. > I changed the path to point to snapshots, then ran fw_update without > parameters, and the only thing it told me was that quirks is up to > date. I was expecting ti o say it found something, but, then again, > the video controller on this guy is one of the unknowns in the dmesg, > if I'm readng it right. I'll have to try to remember to keep a better eye on that message when I re-install on the internal drive. > dmesg for the snapshot: > [...] diff of the dmesgs: ----------------------- 1,2c1,2 < OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #1234: Thu Aug 6 09:26:52 MDT 2015 < dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP --- > OpenBSD 5.7-current (GENERIC_GPT.MP) #0: Sun Jun 14 23:13:31 JST 2015 > r...@phool.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC_GPT.MP 4c4 < avail mem = 1776320512 (1694MB) --- > avail mem = 1776336896 (1694MB) 19c19 < cpu0: AMD A4-1200 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics, 998.27 MHz --- > cpu0: AMD A4-1200 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics, 998.26 MHz 46,47c46,47 < acpicpu0 at acpi0: !C2(0@400 io@0x414), C1(@1 halt!), PSS < acpicpu1 at acpi0: !C2(0@400 io@0x414), C1(@1 halt!), PSS --- > acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS > acpicpu1 at acpi0: PSS 130c130 < root on sd1a (8c7ca2743aa7e90e.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b --- > root on sd0a (c910159e72666593.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b ----------------------- Whatever it didn't find on the snapshot, it didn't seem to have found it before. Sorry for the noise. -- Joel Rees
