On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:44:16PM -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> This is a very disappointing result!!! :-(
>
> I am trying to recover old data from a ccd device, on a
> Promise hard drive controller card.
>
> If I cannot use the Promise HDD controller card, then I
> cannot recover my data.
Use another system that's booting ok and put the promise cards with
its disks into it.
-Otto
>
> If I must use another PCI video card, then I will not be
> able to use the Promise HDD controller card, because my
> motherboard has only 1 PCI slot.
>
> So this will defeat the entire purpose!!!!!
>
> If anybody else has any suggestions, please let me know!
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth J. Hendrickson
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Belopuhov [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sat 7/4/2009 6:39 PM
> To: Hendrickson, Kenneth
> Subject: Re: Cannot Boot with Intel D201GLY Motherboard
>
>
> you have to put a PCI video card in. it's SiS video that blows things up.
> though, as RAMDISK kernel works, surely it's openbsd defficiency. nobody
> has figured out what's actually is a problem because of the lack of this
> hardware.
>
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 17:00 -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> > Cannot Boot with Intel D201GLY Motherboard
> >
> > Disk is 120GB PATA IDE
> >
> > dmesg, fdisk output, and disklabel output are all attached
> > OpenBSD.PDR is also attached
> >
> > I have Googled for problems/answers, and still run into a dead end.
> >
> > There must be a requirement which is not stated in the documentation,
> > which I am not following. Please help.
> >
> > (I am an experienced OpenBSD user, having used OpenBSD continuously
> > since 1998, and having built my own kernels/userland, and also have
> > built OpenBSD for embedded systems.)
> >
> > The instructions for booting from NTLDR (Windows 2000) do not work.
> > As soon as the messages get to the CPU, the system reboots. Booting
> > never works, either from the OpenBSD partition, or from NTLDR from
> > Windows 2000. I have included my OpenBSD.PDR file for examination.
> >
> > Originally, my OpenBSD partition was #4 in fdisk. I added the #1
> > partition, and had both #1 and #4 set to "a6" for OpenBSD. That
> > didn't work. I then chose only #1 partition to be "a6" for OpenBSD,
> > and #4 partition was set to "da" for "No Filesystem". That also
> > didn't work. Please note that my entire OpenBSD / filesystem is
> > within the 1024 cylinder boundary. The /boot file is totally
> > contained within the 1024 cylinder boundary. It still won't boot.
> > It won't boot on its own, nor will it boot from the Windows 2000
> > NTLDR bootloader.
> >
> > Also note that while my fdisk and disklabel indicates Linux
> > partitions, none of them have yet been installed. I installed
> > Windows 2000 first, then OpenBSD. Since I could never get OpenBSD
> > to boot, I have not yet installed Linux.
> >
> > Please help if you can.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Kenneth J. Hendrickson
> >
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which
> had a name of dmesg]
> >
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which
> had a name of fdisk]
> >
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which
> had a name of disklabel]
> >
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which
> had a name of OpenBSD.PDR]
