Resflash 6.7.0 is now available. With the changes to amd64/i386 boot
blocks and the new OpenBSD installer default of FFS2, it became clear
in testing that the previous build/upgrade scripts were too aggressive
in using the build/source system's 'installboot' command in
combination with the destination filesystem's boot blocks. This has
worked well in the past for small updates like adding hexdump to the
boot loader, but currently causes systems to fail to boot after
upgrade when 'installboot' and the boot blocks are mismatched. There
are two options available to resolve this:
1.) Start fresh with a new 6.7-based disk image, and write it to USB
flash or your choice of boot media.
2.) Update the upgrade script in place before running your upgrade:
mount -uw /
ftp -o /resflash/upgrade.sh
https://gitlab.com/bconway/resflash/-/raw/master/host/upgrade.sh
mount -ur /
Attempting to use the existing 6.6 upgrade script without performing
#2 will yield a system that fails to boot, "Loading\n......".
The web site and FAQ have been updated with the latest information:
https://stable.rcesoftware.com/resflash/
Premade resflash images with OpenBSD 6.7-release are currently
available for download for amd64 and i386:
https://stable.rcesoftware.com/pub/resflash/6.7/
Note that the above images are from 6.7-release and do not have errata
applied. I hope to have -stable builds available in the coming weeks.
Also note that FFS1 is still the default filesystem for resflash
images. This is necessary until we get over the hump of having updated
amd64/i386 boot blocks everywhere - so probably next release.
Please consider supporting the OpenBSD project!
https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Brian Conway
Software Engineer, Owner
RCE Software, LLC
