Hi, If you want to boot OpenBSD on an HP EliteBook 830 G7/G8, the bootloader will hang while loading the kernel. Because, the UEFI loads the bootloader on the same place in memory, where the bootloader will copy the kernel. We are unable to load the kernel on arbitrary memory. Thus, the following diff will help you, to get OpenBSD running on these machines. It moves the hardcoded Kernel address to a free place.
I don't intend to commit this. Its just a hint for people who are running in the same issues, as I did. bye, Jan Index: arch/amd64/conf//ld.script =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/ld.script,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -p -r1.17 ld.script --- arch/amd64/conf//ld.script 7 Mar 2021 23:10:54 -0000 1.17 +++ arch/amd64/conf//ld.script 18 Mar 2021 21:11:18 -0000 @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ PHDRS */ __ALIGN_SIZE = 0x1000; __kernel_base = 0xffffffff80000000; -__kernel_virt_base = __kernel_base + 0x1000000; -__kernel_phys_base = 0x1000000; +__kernel_virt_base = __kernel_base + 0x1030000; +__kernel_phys_base = 0x1030000; __kernel_virt_to_phys = __kernel_phys_base - __kernel_virt_base; ENTRY(start)
