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.

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:mikeb@lucifier.net]
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:
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> 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
>
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