On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:21:12 -0400 "Hendrickson, Kenneth" <khend...@harris.com> wrote:
> Disabling acpi (in OpenBSD 4.5) does not work. > > Any help would be appreciated. I do *not* want to lose my old data! > Buy a new /root disk. They are cheap. Dhu > Thanks, > Ken Hendrickson > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Belopuhov [mailto:mi...@lucifier.net] > Sent: Sat 7/4/2009 6:39 PM > To: Hendrickson, Kenneth > Subject: Re: Cannot Boot with Intel D201GLY Motherboard > > > you have to put a PCI video card in. it's SiS video that blows things up. > though, as RAMDISK kernel works, surely it's openbsd defficiency. nobody > has figured out what's actually is a problem because of the lack of this > hardware. > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 17:00 -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote: > > Cannot Boot with Intel D201GLY Motherboard > > > > Disk is 120GB PATA IDE > > > > dmesg, fdisk output, and disklabel output are all attached > > OpenBSD.PDR is also attached > > > > I have Googled for problems/answers, and still run into a dead end. > > > > There must be a requirement which is not stated in the documentation, > > which I am not following. Please help. > > > > (I am an experienced OpenBSD user, having used OpenBSD continuously > > since 1998, and having built my own kernels/userland, and also have > > built OpenBSD for embedded systems.) > > > > The instructions for booting from NTLDR (Windows 2000) do not work. > > As soon as the messages get to the CPU, the system reboots. Booting > > never works, either from the OpenBSD partition, or from NTLDR from > > Windows 2000. I have included my OpenBSD.PDR file for examination. > > > > Originally, my OpenBSD partition was #4 in fdisk. I added the #1 > > partition, and had both #1 and #4 set to "a6" for OpenBSD. That > > didn't work. I then chose only #1 partition to be "a6" for OpenBSD, > > and #4 partition was set to "da" for "No Filesystem". That also > > didn't work. Please note that my entire OpenBSD / filesystem is > > within the 1024 cylinder boundary. The /boot file is totally > > contained within the 1024 cylinder boundary. It still won't boot. > > It won't boot on its own, nor will it boot from the Windows 2000 > > NTLDR bootloader. > > > > Also note that while my fdisk and disklabel indicates Linux > > partitions, none of them have yet been installed. I installed > > Windows 2000 first, then OpenBSD. Since I could never get OpenBSD > > to boot, I have not yet installed Linux. > > > > Please help if you can. > > > > Thank you, > > Kenneth J. Hendrickson > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which > had a name of dmesg] > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which > had a name of fdisk] > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which > had a name of disklabel] > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which > had a name of OpenBSD.PDR]
