Re: Boot problems at install

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

The Butlers wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this post belongs here, or on the bugs list. 

If you don't know, it goes here.

And in this case, it goes here anyway.  You haven't done much
troubleshooting, no reason to pester the developers at this point.

> So I figured I'd
> just use this list. Anywho, here it goes:   I recintly decided that I would
> give OpenBSD a try. So I downloaded the floppy28.fs img and put it to a disk.
> I reboot, and when it starts to boot, and go through the different probs it
> causes my system to freeze at this point:
> 
> ...
> isa0 at mainbus0
> isadma0 at isa0

Might be nice to see more of what lead to this... On the other hand,
it is a pain to transcribe it all, I realize.

> I first thought that it may be a bad disk, so I tried again with another. The
> same thing happened. I was looking at the FAQ's and I thought the problem might
> have been covered in FAQ 8.19 (Help, My NIC isn't properly detected in 2.8
> -This will help you if you are having booting freezes or problems with OpenBSD
> 2.8) So I did as was suggested in the FAQ, and at the boot> prompted typed boot
> -c and then at the UKC> prompted  typed disable pcibios and then quit.
> But the problem still occurred.  A little info on my hardware that I think may
> be causing the problem. I have an ISA Ethernet Adapter (From Options by IBM)
> which is an NE2000 (compatible?) card. I current have no difficulties using it
> in Linux. Though I do believe ISA probes in the past did cause troubles. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated
> 
>   -- Matt

O.k., so what happens if you pull out the NIC?  Does the problem go
away?  Yeah, you may not want to leave it that way, but we need to
know what is causing the problem before we can fix the problem.  Also
try pulling ALL ISA and PCI cards not needed to get a basic bootup
(NOT install, just a boot), what happens now?

Some details of your system might be nice.  ALL the details of your
system would be even better.  What kind of box (processor, brand,
model)?  How much memory?  What other cards in it?  What are the
settings of the ALL the ISA cards?  

Divide and conquer.  Or, at least document and let us help you
concquer. 8-)

Nick.

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