On 2024-07-22, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > I am trying to boot current/amd64 on this HP laptop from USB stick. > > Disabling the "secure boot" in BIOS, so that something else > than the preinstalled windows is even allowed to boot, > and choosing USB Flash Disk as the boot source, > I see the usual > > Using drive 0, partition 3 > > etc, up to > > boot> > > There, the rotating slash either stops and nothing else happens, > or the machine reboots after the first number in > > booting hd0a:/bsd 12345678 + [reboot] > > This happens with both bsd and bsd.rd. > > The USB stick holds a full current/amd64 installation > which I regularly boot on various amd64 machines, > so I don;t suppose that is the problem. > > Any clues please?
Some things you could perhaps try - - does a 7.5 kernel boot? 7.4? (7.3, [..]?) - how about trying an older bootloader (extract usr/share/mdec files from old baseXX.tgz and installboot) - "machine mem" output might be useful to someone looking at this HP machines are often a bit awkward, have been for many years. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
