kenneth: it seems the net5501 finds your harddrive, and the OpenBSD ram disk kernel finds your drive. OpenBSD also seems to find all of the hardware on the net5501. then it's only sensible that OpenBSD can then be booted off the HD. according to your previous posts it appears that the BIOS is not finding the MBR.
i might have missed something in your previous posts...what happens after the BIOS POST? Do you get a "boot>" prompt? My opinion is something was misconfigured during the install. Me....I'd go back an re-install EXACTLY like the faq says...especially the setting up the disks part and creating a disk label. At 1130 at night i don't really feel like looking at your disk configuration parameters when you can do an install in <30min. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Boot On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote: > I cannot get a Soekris net5501 to boot OpenBSD 4.5 from a hard drive. > > Much traffic has passed on the Soekris email list. I've now included > [email protected], because it might be an OpenBSD problem. > > I re-installed OpenBSD. And I noticed a problem at the end of the > install process. I have a "broken MBR". This is probably why my > Soekris net5501 won't boot from hard drive. > **********BIG SNIP************** _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
