[Soekris] OpenBSD installation problem

[Bill Maas]

Hi Georgios,

I'm reluctant to post this link yet again, but what the ...:

http://stsx.xs4all.nl/www.stsx.org/openbsd/obsd-bootsoekris.html

I wrote it a while ago. It's a sort of A-Z of installing OpenBSD on a
Soekris box in the form of a checklist, with a strong emphasis on "the
stupid and obvious", i.e. silly errors which can count for hours of
debugging nonetheless. So don't be offended if it looks a bit "childish"
here and there (I should give it a proper introduction some day..).
It also contains a pile of lynx to other docs and info. The procedure
described has always worked for me so far (the doc is basically a tarted
up collection of notes), except for the odd serial cable headache (but
that's another story).

By the way,
(1) I can't remember even having _typed_ the "set tty com0" command, I
always have that set in boot.conf.
(2) the procedure I have described assumes installing OpenBSD onto the
Soekris box with the CF card in the box.
(3) the doc contains additional install-OpenBSD-specific info.

I hope you will find it useful.

Bill

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:12 +0300, Georgios Tsarpalis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just bought a net5501 and I'm trying to install OpenBSD 4.3 on it
> without success. I follow the standard pxeboot procedure as described in
> the documentation, but the serial connection just seems to hang whenever I
> type the "set tty com0" command. If I simply try to boot the kernel image
> will load but there is no output after that. Any ideas?
> 
> This happened both with cu and screen using a thinkpad with openbsd and
> ubuntu.
> 
> -Eirik
> 
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