Can't boot Dell Inspiron 530

[Count Sputnik]

Hi-

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 Viiv E4500 Core 2 Duo Processor 2.20GHz,
800Mhz FSB, 2MB, RAM 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz,
Hard Drive 640GB Serial ATA2 Non Raid (2x320GB) 7200Rpm Dual HDD Config,
DVD+/-RW (ReadWrite) 16X, Video Card - 128MB nVidia GeForce 8300GS,
keyboard Dell USB, mouse Logitech USB, Internal PCI 802.11 b/g 
Wireless Network Card.


I burned install42.iso on a DVD (not a CD) and booted the machine.

The boot process came along fine until it just froze right after

...
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd: connecting to wsdisplay0


UKC autoconf verbose only says:

...
>>> probing for wskbd
>>> wskbd probe returned 1
>>> wskbd probe won
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd: connecting to wsdisplay0


I can't copy the full dmesg since I can't complete the boot process 
and I don't connect through a console.

There are only USB ports available.

Is this a usual spot for the boot process to hang? Is there anything I can do?

Thanks,

C. Sputnik.

Re: Can't boot Dell Inspiron 530

[Unix Fan]

OpenBSD 4.3 is due out on May 1st, a lot of changes have happened in 5 months.. 
perhaps you should wait for the 4.3 release, or try a snapshot from your local 
mirror, unfortunately, those are -CURRENT.. which, will eventually be the 
4.4-RELEASE.



Reporting hardware incompatibilities for a code base several months old isn't 
very productive... 4.2 was released in November. ;)







-Nix Fan.