First time you need to stty com0 <speed> set tty com0
then you can boot. The installer will remember this for next time, but our kernel does not know the speed so early on. > Quick question, should the PC Engines ALIX 2D13 work with 6.4? Or is the > hardware too old? > > Or (perhaps more likely :-)) did I screw up the installation process > somehow? > > I created an install media (cf card) and boot functions but as the kernel > is loading, the system reboots: > > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m > 640 KB Base Memory > 261120 KB Extended Memory > Waiting for HDD ... > > 01F0 Master 044A CF 8GB > Phys C/H/S 15538/16/63 Log C/H/S 974/255/63 LBA > Using drive 0, partition 3. > Loading........... > probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[640K 255M a20=on] > disk: hd0+ > >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.34 > boot> > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > booting hd0a:/6.4/i386/bsd.rd: 3111423+1360896+3362824+0+454656 > [363995+98+289392+283301]=0x8ced6c > entry point at 0x2000d4 > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m > 640 KB Base Memory > 261120 KB Extended Memory > Waiting for HDD ... > > > I did: > fetch https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/install64.fs > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/rsdd bs=512 count=256 iflag=fullblock > sync ; sync ; sync > dd if=/home/robb/Downloads/install64.fs of=/dev/rsdd bs=1M > sync ; sync ; sync > udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdd > > The same hardware was previously running OpenBSD (5.6 I think) quite > happily. > > Cheers, > Robb. >