On 19 Oct 2015 4:55 p.m., "Jean-Philippe Provost" < jphilippe.prov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't have any CD. I just downloaded the bsd.rd for 5.8 and it wont boot > and ask what I want to do. > > Since I have 5.7 installed on it, the dmesg I got is the one from 5.7 boot > and not bsd.rd (5.8) boot. > > Am I clear? > > -- > *Jean-Philippe Provost* > > > 2015-10-19 16:16 GMT-04:00 Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net>: > > > On 10/19/15 22:04, Jean-Philippe Provost wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've downloaded the bsd.rd from the folder 5.8 on ftp.OpenBSD.org and put > >> it in /. > >> > >> I reboot and type boot bsd.rd. > >> > >> It loads, but at the "end", it sticks at *root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump > >> on > >> rd0b* > >> > >> ââ¬â¹I did the same thing yesterday with my laptop and everything was > fine. > >> > >> Any ideas? The box is a Dell Inspiron ââ¬â¹ > >> > > > > a dmesg always helps diagnose the problem, see eg > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#getdmesg for how to collect one. > > > > and of course, for a more general (and slightly more verbose) procedure > > for reporting bugs, see http://www.openbsd.org/report.html > > > > Good luck! > > > > -- > > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. >
Do you have a serial port on the machine and another machine available? You can capture the complete dmesg from the bsd.rd kernel on a second machine.
