Re: Kernel never loads completely
Success with the snapshot of today. With today's floppy I don't need to do any workarounds. With a snapshot floppy from 8/19 it would panic during boot but this morning I grabbed the latest floppy40.fs and this system boots without me having to manually choose the boot device. I'll be upgrading from 3.9 to the snapshot tonight. Greg On 8/21/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4466772 That's not booting from the floppy. If that's what you are getting, your system isn't trying to boot from the floppy, it keeps going to the HD. Bad floppy, bad cable, bad setting ... (I could also read unstated things into what you are saying, but that's not at all wise) Any ideas? Bad memory? With the mobo I received new Kingston memory but have no other DDR stuff to test with at the moment. 3.4 had the old boot loader that didn't like changing disk geometries. Changing the MoBo could cause issues, though I don't recall that exact symptom. Could also be a HD damaged in handling... If the floppy is really trying to boot and it is hanging at that point, I'd be suspicious of a hardware problem. That's so early in the boot process, the only thing running is the boot loader. The 3.4 boot loader and the 3.9/4.0 boot loader have very little in common, so if BOTH are failing in the same way, you got either a really odd piece of HW or a broken piece of HW. Hah, I found a workaround. If I set only one boot device in the BIOS or if I use the BIOS' boot menu and select the device I want to boot from OpenBSD will boot from floppy, CD, or harddrive. If I let it search through the boot devices set up in the BIOS, whether the working boot device is first, 2nd or third, it hangs as mentioned above. That's an easy enough workaround so I'm fine with that. I was about to give up but since other OSes installed and booted fine I figured I'd keep poking around. I can get a dmesg later if anyone is interested. Greg
Re: Kernel never loads completely
On 8/20/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4466772 That's not booting from the floppy. If that's what you are getting, your system isn't trying to boot from the floppy, it keeps going to the HD. Bad floppy, bad cable, bad setting ... (I could also read unstated things into what you are saying, but that's not at all wise) Any ideas? Bad memory? With the mobo I received new Kingston memory but have no other DDR stuff to test with at the moment. 3.4 had the old boot loader that didn't like changing disk geometries. Changing the MoBo could cause issues, though I don't recall that exact symptom. Could also be a HD damaged in handling... If the floppy is really trying to boot and it is hanging at that point, I'd be suspicious of a hardware problem. That's so early in the boot process, the only thing running is the boot loader. The 3.4 boot loader and the 3.9/4.0 boot loader have very little in common, so if BOTH are failing in the same way, you got either a really odd piece of HW or a broken piece of HW. Hah, I found a workaround. If I set only one boot device in the BIOS or if I use the BIOS' boot menu and select the device I want to boot from OpenBSD will boot from floppy, CD, or harddrive. If I let it search through the boot devices set up in the BIOS, whether the working boot device is first, 2nd or third, it hangs as mentioned above. That's an easy enough workaround so I'm fine with that. I was about to give up but since other OSes installed and booted fine I figured I'd keep poking around. I can get a dmesg later if anyone is interested. Greg
Re: Kernel never loads completely
On 8/20/06, francisco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the off chance you haven't already done this, verify that the floppies are good (via a good `fdformat /dev/rfd0c` before and `cmp /dev/rfd0c /path/to/floppy39.fs` after). I've had similar hangs due to bad media. On 8/20/06, Jeff Quast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you reset cmos? Thanks guys. I reset the cmos and I've checked these floppies. My laptop boots fine from them and the machine in question boots from Redhat and DOS floppies. One post I found mentions A20 issues but I'm not much of hardware person to understand the referenced materials and there weren't any solutions anyway. This little project I'm doing is turning into PITA. Thanks, Greg On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Greg Thomas wrote: On 8/19/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4466772 Any ideas? Bad memory? With the mobo I received new Kingston memory but have no other DDR stuff to test with at the moment. I found some ancient Redhat floppies along with a DOS floppy and they boot fine. In addition to the 3.4 on the harddrive I've tried 3.7, 3.9, and snapshot floppies all with the same result. Greg
Re: Kernel never loads completely
Greg Thomas wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4466772 That's not booting from the floppy. If that's what you are getting, your system isn't trying to boot from the floppy, it keeps going to the HD. Bad floppy, bad cable, bad setting ... (I could also read unstated things into what you are saying, but that's not at all wise) Any ideas? Bad memory? With the mobo I received new Kingston memory but have no other DDR stuff to test with at the moment. 3.4 had the old boot loader that didn't like changing disk geometries. Changing the MoBo could cause issues, though I don't recall that exact symptom. Could also be a HD damaged in handling... If the floppy is really trying to boot and it is hanging at that point, I'd be suspicious of a hardware problem. That's so early in the boot process, the only thing running is the boot loader. The 3.4 boot loader and the 3.9/4.0 boot loader have very little in common, so if BOTH are failing in the same way, you got either a really odd piece of HW or a broken piece of HW. Nick.
Re: Kernel never loads completely
On 8/19/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting hd0a:/bsd: 4466772 Any ideas? Bad memory? With the mobo I received new Kingston memory but have no other DDR stuff to test with at the moment. I found some ancient Redhat floppies along with a DOS floppy and they boot fine. In addition to the 3.4 on the harddrive I've tried 3.7, 3.9, and snapshot floppies all with the same result. Greg
