> On Feb 24, 2018, at 3:06 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2018-02-24, Israel Brewster <isr...@ravnalaska.net> wrote: >> I have an HP Compaq Pro 6300 machine on which I am trying to run >> OpenBSD. The installer boots and runs fine, but after rebooting into the >> newly installed OS, I start getting the boot sequence (the white text on >> blue background stuff - don't know what that is officially called), but >> after a second or so the screen goes blank and that's all she wrote. >> >> My first thought was that it was just a display issue, and that I >> should be able to ssh in and tweak stuff, but as it turns out, the >> machine never shows up on the network, either, so apparently it never >> gets far enough in the boot process to enable the network (networking >> *does* work while I am running through the installer, so I don't think >> it's just a missing network driver there). > > It sounds like it's crashing after the video mode is changed. The > machine probably has inteldrm so at the boot loader prompt, try > "boot -c", then at UKC "disable inteldrm" and "quit".
Bingo! that did the trick - got a good clean boot after running that command. The only issue appears to be that I'm going to have to do that every time I boot. Given that, how do I make it stick? Or, now that we know that is the issue, is there some other, more permanent "fix" I can try? Do I need that inteldrm for any reason? > > That may let it boot, if not then you're at least more likely to see > a hidden error message of some sort. > > If this is 6.2, try -current instead. If it's OpenBSD/i386, try amd64 > instead. Since disabling inteldrm seemed to bypass the issue, if only temporarily, would these still be worth trying, or were they just additional suggestions if the inteldrm thing didn't work? ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Systems Analyst II Ravn Alaska 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7293 ----------------------------------------------- > >
