I am replacing my ancient X60 with an X130e of lesser age. This model
is previously found as working on misc.
When trying to install 6.2 (release) over Windows 10 there is no video
to see.
By booting miniroot62.fs from USB the kernel loads, but the "OpenBSD 6.2
...." and subsequent boot messages do not appear. The video is blank
(apparently backlit but no text is present.) The biosboot loader
messages prior to that do appear for a few seconds. The USB stick
activity light does blink as if things are happening normally.
Same result for 6.1 and 5.9.
The three video options: Native video, VGA and HDMI video outputs show
the same biosboot lines and then the screen blanks. A couple of
different monitors on the VGA output show "unsupported format" or
somesuch suggesting the video signal is not a standard format.
There is no serial port on this hardware. The BIOS is updated to the
latest. I'm going to try to obtain a dmesg with blindly typing against
the install script (blessed OpenBSD with a simple install CLI!)
I'm wondering if there is something to be enabled/disabled in
boot_config that would help. I don't quite understand why video would
blank out once the kernel gets control
(src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/consinit.c and machdep.c) since nothing looks
like it is touching video configuration. This seems to be way before
any video driver gets control.
The Windows 10 "about" page says this is AMD E-450 APU with Radeon HD
Graphics. The Hardware page says "AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics".
Does anyone have further advice?
thanks
John
