On 12/20/2012 11:01 AM, What you get is Not what you see wrote:
I try to install OpenBSD 5.2 i386 to a box with this board. It has an Intel G645 Pentium processor with 4GB of ram and a 500G of Sata3 hard drive. It has an onboard AR8151 ethernet which I understand is not supported by the generic kernel. There is a web page about a diff workaround which dont I dont bother now because I plan to use other nics in the worst case. So my problem is not currently with this nic now. I hardly installed 5.2 generic (it took 5-6 hours, because the cdrom was too slow) and now it cant boot.
clue!
I mean, when booting it comes to this line in dmesg root on wd0a ..... swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
wd?? another clue!
and the error occurs "init : cannot stat /etc/login.conf No such file or directory sh: /etc/rc No such file or directory init: /etc/pwd.db No such file .... Enter pathname of shell ....." I guess the /etc/ filesystem is not mounted or there is no such filesystem. I try to change some bios settings without success. Even I tried disable acpi option when booting but this leads to debugger menu from where I dont know how to report the dump etc. So any help would be appreciated. Here is the board manifacture's web page http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4141
and no dmesg. that's the missing clue, of course. serial console collection would be nice.
I'm guessing, as it sounds fairly new-ish, that you have an option to run the SATA ports in AHCI mode, and obviously, you are not. I've found at least some AHCI controllers in "compatibility" mode are between glacial and unusable. Yours sounds like it was glacial during install and unusable after boot. Dig through your BIOS for options to change the mode of the SATA ports to AHCI ("enhanced" "good" "non-sucky" no idea what they'll call it). You will know you are in AHCI mode if your disks come up as "sd" rather than "wd" devices.
Nick.
