Greetings, I am trying to install OpenBSD 3.8 on an old server that I have lying around. I boot the 3.8 floppy (the system does not have a CDROM drive) and see the following pertinent bits fly by in dmesg:
ahc1 at pci2 dev 14 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-29160 U160" rev 0x02: irq 10 scsibus0 at ahc1: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <WDIGTL, WDE9150 ULTRA2, 1.30> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 8727MB, 13614 cyl, 4 head, 328 sec, 512 bytes/sec 17873040 sec total [then further down, prior to "root on rd0a"] sd0: could not mode sense (4/5): using ficticious geometry sd0(ahc1:0:0): could not get size dkcsum: open of sd0 failed When I enter the install program, entering "sd0" results in a series of: fdisk: sd0: Input/Output error fdisk: sd0: Input/Output error fdisk: sd0: Input/Output error ERROR: No root partition (sd0a) ... at which point I get kicked back to the "Do you want to use *all* of sd0 for OpenBSD? [no]" prompt which repeats all of the above over again. I've tried to install both 3.7 and 3.8... no joy with either. Booting the floppyB38.fs doesn't work; the disk isn't even detected. I'm pretty confident that the hardware is in working order: I managed to install FreeBSD 5.4 without a hitch. Under FreeBSD, a "fdisk da0" reveals: cylinders=1112 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16085 blks/cyl) ..which looks bogus to me, but FreeBSD makes it work, somehow. I'd really like to get OpenBSD installed on this system, as I want it to serve as a DSL firewall. Any help would be appreciated. Please note that this system doesn't have a serial console so I typed the above messages by hand. If a full dmesg is necessary I'll figure out some way to capture it all. Thanks, Steve
