Re: [Libreboot] OpenBSD with libreboot on the X200

[Oriol Demaria]

Yes I thought about recompiling the kernel, and booting with a custom 
kernel. With SeaBIOS I get to type the disk encryption password, but 
that's it. It's worth a try this, because apart from PXE the rest I have 
tried. I actually seems to boot till certain point but you can't see 
anything or switch to any tty. I'm getting a docking station, that I 
think it has a serial port, then I will be able to see what is going on, 
through the serial cable.

So to boot OpenBSD I have to use SeaBIOS to boot from the first 
partition where I have another grub, as for some reason I can't 
chainload directly from libreboots grub, and then start it. I installed 
OpenBSD with the harddrive in other box to try to isolate the problem. I 
have also used grub to load bsd.rd without success. I have tried several 
ways. But usually I just boot from a pendrive with grub calling bsd.rd 
from the loopback interface of an iso file (this works perfectly in for 
any box).

Thank you very much for your advice.

Regards,

On , L.R. D.S. wrote:
> So you chainload SeaBIOS, and try to boot the bsd.rd and it don't show
> nothing? Your conclusion
> is that it's because don't have framebuffer?
> I don't know exactly how is the boot process on OpenBSD (although I
> use it daily), but I don't
> think that it require framebuffer to boot.
> What do you are using to boot? A plain snapshot of install57.iso
> burned on some CD-ROM?
> You tried the pxeboot?
> If nothing works, you could try compile with aperture driver disabled:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/xf86.4?query=xf86
> And, reduce the secure level:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/securelevel.7?query=securelevel&sec=7
>
> If not working, try the openbsd-misc and request some help (please,
> send some dmegs and dmidecode/biosdecode logs).
>
> Regards,
> --mutus