Re: boot error: 'entry point at 0xffffffff81001000'
It turned out to be a problem with the hardware, not the OS. My apologies. Thank you very much for your help. On 10/28/21 10:01 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:26:33PM -0500, J Dragu wrote: 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 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 0x81001000 ... 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. You'll probably need to bisect builds and find where it started failing. -ml
Re: boot error: 'entry point at 0xffffffff81001000'
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:26:33PM -0500, J Dragu wrote: > 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 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 0x81001000 > > > > > > ... 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. > > You'll probably need to bisect builds and find where it started failing. -ml
Re: boot error: 'entry point at 0xffffffff81001000'
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 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 0x81001000 > > > > ... 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. >
Re: boot error: 'entry point at 0xffffffff81001000'
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 0x81001000 > > ... 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.
