On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:54:22PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
| Booting from Hard Disk...
| Using drive 0, partition 3.
| Loading
| ERR R

These "ERR x" error codes are documented in biosboot(8)[1].  They're
brief because the biosboot program is quite space constrained.  In
this particular case, "ERR R", the documentation says:

>    ERR R    Read error.  The BIOS returned an error indication when biosboot
>             attempted to read a disk sector.  This might be any media error,
>             including bad sectors (common on floppy disks), and invalid
>             sectors (can occur with bad geometry translations).
>
>             If this error occurs during an LBA boot (no ‘;’ after
>             “Loading”), then a CHS boot may succeed.  To do this, you should
>             reboot, then hold down either Shift key before biosboot starts.
>             You should see a ‘!’ before “Loading” as confirmation that your
>             override was accepted.

So that's also something you may want to try.  Although the suggestion
to try more recent firmware from Leslie is generally a good first
step.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

[1]: http://man.openbsd.org/biosboot#DIAGNOSTICS

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