Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
I've tried 4.9 and todays snapshot, and both i386 and amd64. Installing OpenBSD was no problem, but when booting for the first time i get this: Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading. probing: pc0 apm pci mem[619K, 3326M 768M a20=on] disk: hd0+ OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.15 / And thats it. How can I

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Marc Smith
Dnia nie, 16 paE: 2011, 15:47:53 Christer Solskogen pisze: I've tried 4.9 and todays snapshot, and both i386 and amd64. Installing OpenBSD was no problem, but when booting for the first time i get this: Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading. probing: pc0 apm pci mem[619K, 3326M 768M a20=on]

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Marc Smith marc_sm...@gmx.com wrote: Are you sure you used kernel that is designed for your CPU architecture? Also, have you tried with: 'boot -c' and then: 'disable acpi' and 'quit' ? I not getting that far. The kernel isn't even loaded yet. Yeah, I

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: Then this happend: boot boot hd0a:/bsd booting hd0a:/bsd: / And it stops there. This is with the most recent snapshot. And now I installed again, but with auto layout of the partitions. And now the

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 10/16/11 17:20, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: Then this happend: boot boot hd0a:/bsd booting hd0a:/bsd: / And it stops there. This is with the most recent snapshot. And now I installed again, but with

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
Then this happend: boot boot hd0a:/bsd booting hd0a:/bsd: / And it stops there. This is with the most recent snapshot. And now I installed again, but with auto layout of the partitions. And now the machine boots. Is there a limit of how big / can be? The machine have a 1TB disk. The

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: You don't want a giant root file system. It won't work. Not only that, but I also ignored the FAQ. The latter was my biggest sin :-) -- chs,

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
The biosboot (ie. boot sector) must be able to load the /boot file. Then, the /boot file must be able to load the kernel. Both need to be BIOS-reachable. You don't want a giant root file system. It won't work. We actually have other reasons to have our users not use giant root