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OpenBSD update issues I've had are resolved!
Thank you to everyone who gave me things to try to resolve my #OpenBSD Dell Optiplex 3080 i5 not wanting to boot /bsd but would only boot /bsd.sp and bsd.rd
I tried everything from booting bsd.rd and upgrading to using doas sysupgrade -s but each upgrade failed the same. I even deleted /bsd so it remade it after an upgrade but still the same.
Finally after thinking the next step was to do a fresh install I decided to try rolling back the snapshot to the 1st May. This is not recommended but what had I to lose ?
So i entered doas sysupgrade -sf
http://ftp.hostserver.de/archive/2026-05-01-0105/ and guess what ? It only boots into /bsdnow and I have all my CPU's back !
Yipee ! 🎉
Now to see if a doas sysupgrade -s does it's stuff and still boots /bsd`
#RunBSD
Published at
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