I am seeing the same issue:
On my OBSD machine:
Using disk 1 on the openBSD 4.1 distro, it boots like a champ.
Using disk 1 on the OpenBSD 4.2 distro, it skips the cd and goes on to the
next step. By Skip, my "guess" is that it doesnt find an appropriate
bootblock on the cd to boot from, and then goes to the next device in the
boot order.
I even went so far as to try different positions in the IDE chain for the
cd drive (secondary/slave, primary/master, but no difference). I also
tried disabling all other bootable devices in bios and leaving only the
CD-rom as a viable boot device, and it still would not boot.
My solution was to burn cd42.iso to a cd and boot off of that. That
worked well for me.
Motherboard:
tyan trinity I845e bios rev:v1.10
As found here: http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/trinityi845e.html
Answers to other questions:
- The 4.2 cd does boot sucessfully on another machine.
- I didnt move the CD-rom drive to another machine, but it seems ok,
considering it boots 4.1.
- cd42.iso does boot.
- I did not see a emu or install iso on the 4.2 disk 1. (Find reveals
only cd42.iso)
Hope that helps
--C
p.s. I'll send my dmesg over as well.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
This thread is a bit bothersome for a lot of reasons. However, there
is a lack of hard info so far.
When you say it isn't booting the CD, what does this mean? Does it try
but fail with some error? Does it not even stop at the CD on the way
to attempting to boot the hard disk?
And let's see what the actual scope of the problem is:
Does the official CD boot? (I think the point of this thread
is for some people, no it doesn't).
Does a copy of the official CD boot? (Is there any error reported
when trying to make a copy?)
For the people that say the official CD doesn't boot, do they have other
machines they /can/ boot the official CD?
If people are spotting some machines that do and some that don't, what
happens if you move the CD drive from one that does boot to one that
doesn't? Does the problem follow the machine or the drive?
Does a CD made from install42.iso boot?
Does a CD made from cd42.iso boot?
Does a CD made from cdemu42.iso boot?
If install42.iso or cd42.iso boot, don't be looking for code changes,
sounds like we had a bum pressing of CDs or some other "quirk" in the
way the master was made, as they all use the same boot process. Still
needs to be identified and fixed for 4.3, but it wouldn't be a code
problem.
Nick.
