On 2022-04-13, misc.99...@aleeas.com <misc.99...@aleeas.com> wrote:
> > It sounds like you're trying to use the 32bit OpenBSD installer for a
>> 64bit cpu. In that case, you would want the AMD64 installer.

Even if that is the case, it's not very likely to change the ACPI parsing.

> As far as I remember the CPU is only 32-bit capable. But outputs I gathered 
> from Linux is telling me otherwise (given below).

CPU spec sheet says it could support it, but maybe it's disabled by BIOS.
IIRc 64-bit mode on some of the Atoms does not work brilliantly anyway.

> To give it a shot, I just tried to boot amd64 install70.img (sha256: 
> 6bc7f945c2709247d449892c33c0f1b9a31590528572c1e988fef4a7637210e6) on the 
> machine and this time it didn't even get to kernel panic stage.
>
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading.....
> probing: pc0 mem[634K 2035M a20=on]
> disk hd0+ hd1+*
>>> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.53
> boot>
> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory
> booting hd0a /7.0/amd64/bsd.rd: 3830471+1598464+3907256+0+704512 
> [109+288+28]=0x995530
> entry point at 0xffffffff81001000
>
> Then it stops. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or any key doesn't do anything. Only way 
> is to press the power button to force shutdown.

The two main causes of this:

- booting on serial console without "set tty com0" in the boot loader
- trying to run amd64 on a machine that only supports 32-bit


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