Did something change in 65/66?

[bsd-keith]

The last version that worked on some of my laptops was 64, 65 didn't even load to the installer, if I remember right, same with 66, so I'm thinking maybe some kind of support has maybe been removed(?).

(I've tried 66 on my old Acer & my old Toshiba, & I know I used to have 64 running on my Acer before.)

It's not a show stopper for me personally, as I use mainly Linux & just keep my hand in with BSD, just strange that it wouldn't run on a machine that used to work with OpenBSD before.

[jggimi]

By my count, there were 1,353 significant changes.

• www.openbsd.org/plus65.html
• www.openbsd.org/plus66.html

Post your 6.4 dmesg(8)!

[bsd-keith]

Sorry, jggmi, I no longer have any installation of OpenBSD at the moment.
I was just wondering what might have changed to cause a pre working laptop to fail.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to really know the differences between releases, but there don't seem to have been anything removed of any consequence.

[ripe]

Is any other OS can be installed in this Acer? Is this Acer suffer hardware problems? No problem with BIOS?

[shep]

Some of my older systems will not boot the usb installer but will boot/install from a cdrom or floppy. PXE install would also be another option.

Also check the BIOS. Depending on the Vendor, some settings will disable legacy usb devices during boot.

[bsd-keith]

I have Linux installed on it as of now; & it was never a problem to install to it before '65' - it's just odd.