>>The dmesg is needed. This looks like the disk/usb stick is not being
>>found by the OS.
>
> I was afraid of that.
>
> Dealing with the first apparent problem, that most of the dmesg scrolls
> off the screen, looks to be easy; a quick look at the source reveals
> that ddb has an apparently undocumented 'dmesg' command.
>
> Actually capturing the dmesg looks to be harder; given that this is a
> store demo system to which I have very limited access I'm not sure I've
> got any better way than hand-writing it all.  I've got a couple of ideas
> for easier ways to try, but it will take a few days.  Are there any
> parts of the dmesg that are known to be unnecessary for this purpose, so
> I can avoid the work of copying them if I have to fall back to writing
> everything down and retyping it?
>
> Now that I've had time to think about this a bit, I'd guess that the
> problem is some new USB controller that OpenBSD doesn't yet understand.
> If so, am I correct that all that's really needed is the vendor ID and
> device ID of the controller?  I'll check for this first, now that I know
> how to view the whole dmesg after the panic.
>
> FWIW this stick boots just fine on lots of other systems, both before
> and after this problem system.

AFAIK, if its a USB 3 controller, it is unsupported in OpenBSD.

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