Hi list! I sent a mail yesterday trying to describe a problem I have with a HP DC5850 which freezes during boot. (Original mail below)
I didn't receive any responses but figured it may be due to the fact that I was replying to a previous mail "HP Compaq 6005 hanging on boot" insted of using a unique subject. Maybe I didn't provide enough information ? Or maybe the right people just missed it. I have read through the manual pages for boot, boot_i386, installboot and biosboot but did not find any clues on how to get more verbose output from boot at that early stage. At startup i get this message: Attempting Boot From USB Device Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading... probing: pc0 pci mem[ and then it hangs. I get the same result when trying to boot from the 4.7 CD's. I realize this is not mutch to work with, but I don't know how to produce more verbose output than this. Is there anything I can do to get some proper debug info? Could it just be bad/broken hardware? It is not critical for me to get this working on this particular machine, but I figured it would be a good lerning-experience to try. As I said in my previous mail, any pointers on how to debug this, or where I can get the porper information would be nice :) If this is just means that the hardware isn't supported then plase let me know. Thanks! >I have the same problem (i think) on a HP dc5850. >In my test I've installed OpenBSD 4.7 on a USB drive and have sucessfully >testet OpenBSD on several computers :) But when I try it on the dc5850: > > Attempting Boot From USB Device > Using drive 0, partition 3. > Loading... > probing: pc0 pci mem[ > >it hangs. > >I also tried to start it with the 4.7 CD's (I tried both i386 and the >amd64 cd) with the same result. > >I tried setting the "Integrated Graphics Memory Size" to a fixed size >(64 MB) because I noticed that it hangs on "mem[", but I really have no idea >if this could possibly be related to IGM, I am troubleshooting blindly here :S > >Any pointers on what man pages to look at, bios settings, anything at all >really, would be nice. > >If you need more information to be able to help, please let me know. > >Thanks! > > >>Hello, >> >>I tried to install OpenBSD on an HP Compaq 6005 machine, but it's not >>booting OpenBSD from a CD-ROM. It prints the following messages: >> >> CD-ROM: 9F >> Loading /4.7/I386/CDBOOT >> probing: pc0 com0 pci mem[ >> >>and then simply hangs. >> >>I've tried the latest 4.7 snapshot (both i386 and amd64) and 4.6/i386, >>all with the same results. >> >>The same machine runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.10, FWIW) just fine. I'm not sure >>it helps, but I've appended a Linux dmesg below (no OpenBSD dmesg since >>the thing won't boot). >> >>Any hints on how to solve the problem? >> >>Cheers, >>Rafael
