[SunRescue] OpenBSD and SS1/SS1+

[bobk]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Kurt M. Nowak wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm in the process of installing OpenBSD 2.6 on my SS1+ and while
> booting via CDrom, the boot process terminates to an openboot prompt
> "infinite loop" right after the boot process detects my BWTWO frame
> buffer. At that point the keyboard is dead so I'm forced to turn off the
> machine to reset. After several attempts, i finally got it to fully boot
> and i managed to install the OS, but when i boot up again with the newly
> installed OS,  the phenomenon continues. I thought the problem was my
> machine, but I tried it on my SS1 and the problem persists. However it
> seems to boot up ok on my IPX, but i dont want to install it on that
> machine. Can any BSD folks shed some light on what my problem may be? Im
> running 16megs of ram, a bwtwo, and an extra ethernet sbus card.

I've installed openbsd on many SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPC, IPX - and never seen
this problem. However, I haven't used to BW2. I suspect there may be a
problem with that driver.  You may want to see if it has been fixed in
OpenBSD 2.7, which is due out on the 15th.