On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:20:35PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Aaron Hsu wrote:
> > | On Tue, 01 May 2007 13:15:04 -0500, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > |
> > | >On Tue, 1 May 2007, Aaron Hsu wrote:
> > | >
> > | >>On Tue, 01 May 2007 03:35:33 -0500, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > | >>wrote:
> > |
> > | [...]
> > |
> > | >>> The UKC prompt is still not working, you'll need an ACPI enabled >
> > | >>bsd.rd.
> > | >>
> > | >>I do not haveb&unfortunately, a current installation of OpenBSD on
> > | >>which I can
> > | >>compile a new BSD.RD kernel. Is there a way I can work around this?
> > |
> > | [...]
> > |
> > | >One quite involved method I can think of: if you have parallels, you
> > | >could use that to build a ACPI enabled release (see release(8), remove
> > | >"disable" from the acpi line for GENERIC and RAMDISK_CD).
> > |
> > | Well wait a second, that makes sense! Hah, I think I can do that. All I
> > | would have to do is build two new kernels, right? A BSD.RD and a BSD? And
> > | then I could just make a bootable iso straight from the rest of 4.1, no?
> > 
> > I think you can just run config(8) against a bsd.rd from some
> > snapshot. After installation, you can chroot into your installed OS
> > and config(8) /bsd and/or /bsd.mp (the Core Duo has two cores, you can
> > run bsd.mp to get SMP support).
> > 
> > $ config -ef bsd.rd
> > OpenBSD 4.1-current (RAMDISK_CD) #298: Sun Apr 29 14:18:55 MDT 2007
> >     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
> > Enter 'help' for information
> > ukc> find acpi
> > 216 acpi0 at mainbus0 disable bus -1 flags 0x0
> > ukc> enable acpi
> > 216 acpi0 enabled
> > ukc> quit
> > Saving modified kernel.
> > 
> > No need to build kernels.
> 
> Huh? How is the OP supposed to get an install if the cd41.iso isn't
> working?

Not that I know anything about macs, but wouldn't starting boot from an
official cdXY.iso and then using that to load the kernel off a different
CD work just fine? Unless I am mistaken, boot doesn't require the CD to
be present after it's started...

                Joachim

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