This is going to be the weirdest thing you heard all week but here goes. Drop in a bootable cd (like windows) and boot. When it asks for you to press the key to boot don't; just let it fall through and tada it boots afterward (maybe).
I have an HP laptop that needs this trick. On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:50:43PM +0200, Epidemic SomeGuy wrote: > I have the same problem (i think) on a HP dc5850. > In my test I've installed OpenBSD 4.7 on a USB drive and have > sucessfully testet OpenBSD on several computers :) > But when I try it on the dc5850: > > Attempting Boot From USB Device > Using drive 0, partition 3. > Loading... > probing: pc0 pci mem[ > > it hangs. > > I also tried to start it with the 4.7 CD's (I tried both i386 and the > amd64 cd) with the same result. > > I tried setting the "Integrated Graphics Memory Size" to a fixed size > (64 MB) because I noticed that it hangs on "mem[", but I really have > no idea if this could possibly be related to IGM, I am troubleshooting > blindly here :S > > Any pointers on what man pages to look at, bios settings, anything at > all really, would be nice. > > If you need more information to be able to help, please let me know. > > Thanks! > > > >Hello, > > > >I tried to install OpenBSD on an HP Compaq 6005 machine, but it's not > >booting OpenBSD from a CD-ROM. It prints the following messages: > > > > CD-ROM: 9F > > Loading /4.7/I386/CDBOOT > > probing: pc0 com0 pci mem[ > > > >and then simply hangs. > > > >I've tried the latest 4.7 snapshot (both i386 and amd64) and 4.6/i386, all > >with the same results. > > > >The same machine runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.10, FWIW) just fine. I'm not sure it > >helps, but I've appended a Linux dmesg below (no OpenBSD dmesg since the > >thing won't boot). > > > >Any hints on how to solve the problem? > > > >Cheers, > >Rafael
