On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:53:57AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:46:31AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> > 
> > I did an inital install w/ a monitor attached to a V40Z,
> 
> Same here - we had a USB keyboard which it seemed the OBP did not want
> to talk to because, even though I was nice to the OpenBSD people and
> set up a bootselector for either OS, you couldn't select the
> non-default option.  The keyboard only started working when the kernel
> was booted and wscons talked to it.

Mine did it right with a custom bootblock on the install media.

> > but right now
> > it's running quite happily with the console being sent to the 
> > Lights-Out-Management stuff.  (I think it's configured with serial 
> > bootblocks, and then the serial port redirected to the LOM stuff)
> > 
> 
> Cool :)
> 
> > 
> > and 8GB RAM.  Fastest build of -current so far (without X) is 35 minutes 
> > on a tmpfs with '-j 4'.  ('-j 6' took 37 minutes)
> 
> Most of the time the machine was CPU bottle-necked in my case, the
> only time the disk i/o went up was when there was a lot of mkdir's or
> installing happening.
> 
> >  It's also fun 
> > building a fresh kernel (from scratch!) in 2-3 minutes :) 
> > 
> 
> Yep - one could get used to that :)

If only amd64 had linux/linux32 compatibility or x86 would run with 16G ram ...

> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn

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