Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very strange problem upon booting with OpenBSD-3.7. > I have a USB HD plugged-in my box. My bios is setup to boot only from > HDD0 which is an internal IDE drive (I tried all different combinations, > but the problem is always the same). > On booting, if the USB HD is turned off, everything works fine, but if > it is turned on, then the box won't boot, it just hangs before the boot> > prompt at: > > hd0+ hd1+ > > If I then turn the USB HD off, then the boot continues. Any idea how to > solve this ? > Thanks in advance. > > Antoine > > ps : more info,
good problem report. :) APPARENTLY, the boot loader is getting stuck trying to make sense of the BIOS supported USB HD. I suspect you can get around this by disabling BIOS support for USB disks, keyboards, etc. Normally, it is called "USB Legacy Support" or something similar. Once this is done, the boot loader won't be able to see the USB HD to get hung up on it, but it will still be available once an OS boots. Not exactly a fix, but a work-around that I think will work. Nick.
