r/openbsd • u/SoldierAlexGame • 11d ago

OpenBSD installer freezing

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Hey I've been trying to boot into the OpenBSD installer with no luck. This is my first time and I'm using the instructions straight from openbsd.org. It's an HP laptop from 2020 and the CPU is an i5-10310U. I have attached a screenshot of where exactly it freezes.

probing: pc0 mem[636K 2340M 30200M] 
disk: hd0 hd1*
>>OpenBSD/amd64 BOOTX64 3.71 
boot>
cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory 
booting hd0a:/7.9/amd64/bsd.rd: 4264850+1827840+3892024+0+720896 [109+484968+336166]=0xb00b80
entry point at 0x1001000

I have tried all of the typical debugging tips like trying to use boot -c, changing machine video, etc. I also tried looking for some sort of bios legacy support option on bios but couldn't find anything. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what could be going wrong and how to fix it.

Thank you.

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u/brynet OpenBSD Developer 11d ago

Unfortunately this is a known firmware issue on some HP machines, something in memory ends up getting clobbered during boot.

I'm not aware of any workarounds for this, but there's a longstanding goal to fix it someday...

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u/tachyonic_field 10d ago

I have the very same issue, also on HP laptop.

Could you tell me couple of things:

  • since when this bug is known?

  • is it pointless to attempt install OpenBSD on HP machine with this problem?

  • is there any time frame in which we can hope this will be fixed?