Re: Help! Install stops at "Making all device nodes...".

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

Al Oomens wrote:
> 
> After unsucessfully trying to install OpenBSD several
> times, I am in need of some help. The installation
> appears to go fine, but just after entering the time
> zone info, the system shows a message like: "Making
> all device nodes..." and just sits there. Unless this
> should take a long time, over an hour for instance, it
> is hung. I see no drive activity, and it just sits
> there.
> 
> My system is a Compaq Server with 2 8G SCSI HD's
> attached to an Adaptec 39160 SCSI Controller.
> 
> Any suggestions?

not too many details...such as, what version of OpenBSD, etc.
A lot of machines could be called "a Compaq Server".

Wild guess with what you have provided, though:

IF running OpenBSD 3.3, probably a combination of the following two
problems:
  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#mkdevhang
  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#cpq16m

i.e., the second problem causes you to experience the first.

3.4 and recent 3.4-beta snapshots has the "SmallRAM" workaround in the
install scripts already (yay!), though you still will have the Compaq
RAM issue.  Workaround works well, however..

Nick.
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