Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid

Put your boot media in the drive and power up your system. You should see the usual BIOS messages go flashing past and then the OpenBSD boot prompt.

boot>

If you should need to interrupt the boot process for any reason, you can enter the appropriate commands here. We'll discuss various reasons to interrupt the boot in Chapter 6, as well as elsewhere in the book. If you wait for five seconds, the boot messages will follow.

booting fd0a:/bsd: +173028=0x43d3e4 start=0xd0100020 entry point at 0x100020 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 Copyright (c) 1995-2002 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

At this point, device driver messages will start to flow past, as OpenBSD probes your hardware and assigns drivers to all the system components that it recognizes.