Re: Installing OpenBSD 3.0 under VMware ESX 1.1

[Thorsten Glaser <nirwana@ecce.homeip.net>]

begin  electrogrammati illius Bill McCarty

>I found the boot(8) man page on line, which provides some helpful
>information. It tells me that the BusLogic BT9xx, which VMware ESX
>emulates, is supported. But, apparently, the controller must be configured
>on port 0x330:
[...]
>The I/O port (0x1000) doesn't seem to match up with the required value
>(0x330). Does that mean I'm toast?

No, just use "boot -c" at the boot loader prompt, and you will be
forwarded to UKC, where you can change the I/O port settings etc.
of any devices. On the OpenBSD website there is a good explanation
of UKC, as is for example in the file (IIRC) INSTALL.i386.

Have luck,
Thorsten
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