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 -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/