RE: Bizarre boot problem

["Ric Messier" <kilroy@WasHere.COM>]

Yup. You're right. I didn't immediately connect the FAQ to the problem
because it boots fine in the docking station. Will be trying a couple of
them shortly.

Thanks!
Ric


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
Dennis Dai
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:28 PM
To: Ric Messier
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Bizarre boot problem


Ric Messier wrote:
>
> Situation:
> Compaq Armada 7400
> Docking station that holds floppy drive
> OpenBSD 2.8
>
> I built the system in the docking station. Reboots work in the docking
> station. I take the system out of the docking station and try to boot it
at
> home and I get the Disk: 0  Partition: 3 message where it hangs.
>
> This is a spare drive so I've put several OS's on it over the last year.
I'm
> certain I did this with either 2.6 or 2.7 and didn't have any problems
with
> booting in and out of the docking station.
>
> Anyone had similar experiences?
>
> Thanks,
> Ric

I had the same problem. There is an FAQ item that talks about this at:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#14.6

I tried different methods but still ended up using osbs.

Dennis