On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:05 AM Daniele B. <my2...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Don't think your platform is supported:
> https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html
> https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html
>
> otherwise let us know, I will install it on mine too ;d)

Top-posting is messy but I'll try it this way!

OPs states that his macbook is Intel i5, so macppc is irrelevant. This is amd64.



> May 18, 2023 08:39:07 yellowcutterpillow <yellowcutterpil...@gmail.com>:
>
> > I wanted to install OpenBSD on my Macbook Pro 8,1 (Early/Late 2011)
> > but seem to fail. When I boot up install73.img or miniroot73.img, they
> > boot up, but when I actually boot up the ramdisk, bsd or bsd.rd, they
> > stuck up at a message about aicp0 being remapped or something. I would
> > try to diagnose it but I can't since when I boot with -c flag, the
> > cursor glitches, or the keyboard stops working, because I can't type
> > anything.
> >
> > I've set up a QEMU emulation of OpenBSD on my Linux box and it works
> > fine. The reason I did so is because I've sort read that I can configure
> > the kernel using it though I lost the reference, so now I don't have any
> > idea on how I can even turn on the ``verbose`` flag in the kernel. I
> > can't also access ``dmesg,`` so if anyone has any idea, I'd be more than
> > happy for your help. Some info, MBP 8,1 is Intel i5, QUAD CORE, and
> > UEFI. No BIOS options, not sure if it supports CMS.

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