Thank you, Pawkolor, for posting a dmesg buffer! These are of interest:
Code:
OpenBSD 6.2 (RAMDISK_CD) #165: Tue Oct 3 20:05:31 MDT 2017
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
This is an i386 architecture kernel. OpenBSD/i386 is a 32-bit OS, limited to 3GB of RAM. It will run on 64-bit processors, but is
not recommended for use on them.
Code:
cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3.51 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,P GE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE, SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,NXE,LONG,SSE3,...
The "LONG" attribute means this is a 64-bit capable CPU. and the i7-2700K Intel processor is a Sandy Bridge, 4-core / 8-thread CPU. The proper OpenBSD architecture to install is
amd64.
Code:
real mem = 3375058944 (3218MB)
avail mem = 3301220352 (3148MB)
3GB is the maximum for the i386 architecture, as I noted above. It doesn't matter how much is actually installed.
Code:
vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0fba (class multimedia subclass hdaudio, rev 0xa1) at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured
"Intel HD Graphics 3000" rev 0x09 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured
As LeFrettchen guessed, you have a Hybrid video system, with both NVIDIA and Intel graphics.
My recommendations:
- Disable the NVIDIA graphics in your system's BIOS, and only use the Intel graphics card. Hybrid graphics do not function on OpenBSD, and NVIDIA graphics hardware is not supported.
- Do not install OpenBSD/i386. Use OpenBSD/amd64 instead.