Hello,
I just tried installing OpenBSD 4.2 on an older PIII box I got a while
back - but I can't get the install to boot from CD. Here's what I have
so far:
- The PC has an Intel server board, L440GX+, with two PIII/550 (Slot 1)
on it. This board has both IDE and SCSI (Dual channel U2W, Adaptec
AIC-7896) on-board.
- The CD-ROM is SCSI and connected to channel B of the U2W controller.
- There are two IDE disks - a 20GB connected to IDE1 (master) and a 160GB on
IDE2 (master).
- The SCSI controller is set to support bootable CDs and the OpenBSD CD
is recognised as such.
If I try to boot from CD, the only lines I get are:
CR-ROM: 9F
Loading /4.2/I386/CDBOOT
probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[635K 638M a20=on]
disk:
At this point, the machine hangs hard, i.e. neither keyboard, nor
reset/power buttons work anymore. I litterally have to pull the plug.
If I disable *both* IDE drives in the BIOS, booting from CD-ROM works
(or at least I get to the 'boot>' prompt, haven't tested further yet).
Disabling only one of them doesn't help, though.
As a test, I also tried to boot from an OpenBSD 3.9 CD, but that showed
the same symptoms. Same goes for a Kubuntu 7.04 live CD - got stuck
right after the boot menu.
The odd thing is: I *have* installed OpenBSD on this PC in the past
(must have been 4.0 or 4.1). The changes I have made since then were -
as far as I can remember:
- I removed a second 20GB IDE drive that was slave on IDE1.
- I added the 160GB drive on IDE2
- I think I removed a PCI VGA card and a sound card, but I'm not 100%
whether they were actually in there when I installed OpenBSD the last
time.
- I added a 3C509B(?) NIC.
Any insight on this would be most welcome. I saw one related thread in
the archives, but that seemed to deal with PCI cards rather than
on-board devices. One of the solutions offered there was to remove the
boot-eeprom from one of those cards - but I don't thinks I have that
option in this case... :-}
Regards,
Thomas
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