Trying with a snapshot returned the same error. Here's what it tells me when I check machine memory:
> Low ram: 634KB High ram: 3065328KB > Total free memory: 8179378KB On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 20:04 Mike Larkin <mlar...@nested.page> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 06:57:46PM -0500, J Dragu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I know there was a previous thread here about a perhaps similar issue > > with 6.8 (?), but since from what I can tell it was fixed with 6.9 > > I figured I'd ask about my problem. If there's something obvious I'm > > missing I do apologize! > > > > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 7.0 on a Thinkpad T410 from a USB stick. > > Whenever I try to boot in to the installer I get the following messages: > > > > > cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory > > > booting hd0a:/7.0/amd64/bsd.rd: 38030471+1598464+3907256+0+704512 > > [109+288+28]=0x995530 > > > entry point at 0xffffffff81001000 > > > > ... at which point it becomes unresponsive. I've checked to make sure > > the BIOS are up to date (1.45, going by Lenovo's website), and also > > fiddled with some settings like disabling hyperthreading, to no avail. > > I'm writing this email from my X61s (which is running 7.0 just fine) > > and I tried putting this SSD in the T410 and got the exact same results, > > so I suppose the issue isn't with the installer itself (?). Has anyone > > else encountered this? > > > > Thank you for reading. > > J > > > > 2 things to try: > > 1. get a latest snap if you didn't already. > > 2. boot> machine memory > ... and show the result here. >
