Re: Kernelpanic Booting from 1gb IBM Microdrive

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Paul Vanovertveld wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> ad 1) yes the disklabel was still there
> ad 2) disable pciide did the trick.
> You and the other person [the one that made the suggestion] where right :-)
> now I only have to make this config permanent.

Since he was right, that was Tom "Don't call me the 'boot guy'"
Cosgrove.  (he's right, so he gets credit.  If he was wrong, I'd get
the blame.  Wait a minute...)

> Here is the bootprotocol
> boot> boot hd0a:/bsd -c
> booting hd0a:/bsd: 4682740+843836 [58+214080+191668]=0x5a86fc
> entry point at 0x100120
> 
> [ using 406220 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>          The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1995-2004 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
> http://www.OpenBSD.org
> 
> OpenBSD 3.5-current (GENERIC) #27: Wed Apr 14 10:50:54 MDT 2004
>      deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> RTC BIOS diagnostic error 8e<clock_battery,fixed_disk,invalid_time>
> cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC"
> 586-class) 267 MHz
> cpu0: FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX
> cpu0: TSC disabled
> real mem  = 268021760 (261740K)
> avail mem = 242171904 (236496K)
> using 3297 buffers containing 13504512 bytes (13188K) of memory
> User Kernel Config
> UKC> disable pciide
>   78 pciide* disabled
> UKC> exit
...

To make it permanent, just follow the same basic steps using 'config'
on the booted machine:
   http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#config

Nick.
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