now with a 3.9 (27/02/06) it's stopping earlier and some hardware is accessed differently
'boot -c' with 'disable pcibios0' Copyright... OpenBSD 3.9 (RAMDISK_CD) #1022: Mon Feb 27 19:21:09 MST 2006 deraadt... cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.50 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF real mem = 937902080 ... avail mem = 849911808 ... using 4278 buffers containing 46997504 bytes ... of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0 AT/286+(2f) BIOS, date 09/30/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd550 pcibios at bios0 function 0x1a not configured bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xcc000/0x1000 0xcd000/0x1600 0xe0000/0x10000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x5a31 rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "ATI RS480 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) "ATI RS480 PCIE" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured now as requested a verbose output: [is there any way to change the screensize while booting?] >>> cac probe returned 0 >>> probing for ciss* >>> ciss probe returned 0 >>> probing for isp* >>> isp probe returned 0 >>> probing for mpt* >>> mpt probe returned 0 >>> probing for de* >>> de probe returned 0 >>> probing for ep0 >>> ep probe returned 0 >>> probing for ep* >>> ep probe returned 0 >>> probing for fpa* >>> fpa probe returned 0 >>> probing for le* >>> le probe returned 0 >>> probing for pcn* >>> pcn probe returned 0 >>> probing for siop* >>> siop probe returned 0 >>> probing for pciide* >>> pciide probe returned 0 >>> probing for ppb* After i saw this i tried a 'boot -c' with 'disable pcibios0' and 'disable ppb' and the booting was finally working; expect the networkcards. i think i can't get them to work with ppb disabled... any suggestions how to get them working after a harddisk install? thanks for the help