Sunday, April 30, 2023

Re: Booting OpenBSD 7.3's i386 bsd.rd

How are you getting to the boot> prompt?

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 12:28 PM Damian McGuckin <damianm@esi.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> What is required please?
>
> I am trying to boot this bsd.rd (which is a file 4Mb big) on an old
> NET5500 which has 512MBytes of RAM. On a running system,
>
> From the
>
> boot>
>
> prompt, doing
>
> boot> boot bsd.rd
>
> it appears to loads bsd.rd, but then drops straight back into the BIOS
> and starts the BIOS boot.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
> Thanks - Damian
>
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