Apologies to the list for not having all my data ahead of time.

After finding and burning install42.iso (from the 10/28 snapshot), I can 
say that it  boots. (at least up to the "(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell?" 
prompt.

The cdemu42.iso (also from the 10/28 snapshot) works as well.

--Colin

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Colin Corbett wrote:

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> I am seeing the same issue:
>
> On my OBSD machine:
> Using disk 1 on the openBSD 4.1 distro, it boots like a champ.
> Using disk 1 on the OpenBSD 4.2 distro, it skips the cd and goes on to the 
> next step.  By Skip, my "guess" is that it doesnt find an appropriate 
> bootblock on the cd to boot from, and then goes to the next device in the 
> boot order.
>
> I even went so far as to try different positions in the IDE chain for the cd 
> drive (secondary/slave, primary/master, but no difference).  I also tried 
> disabling all other bootable devices in bios and leaving only the CD-rom as a 
> viable boot device, and it still would not boot.
>
> My solution was to burn cd42.iso to a cd and boot off of that.  That worked 
> well for me.
>
> Motherboard:
> tyan trinity I845e bios rev:v1.10
> As found here: http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/trinityi845e.html
>
> Answers to other questions:
> - The 4.2 cd does boot sucessfully on another machine.
> - I didnt move the CD-rom drive to another machine, but it seems ok, 
> considering it boots 4.1.
> - cd42.iso does boot.
> - I did not see a emu or install iso on the 4.2 disk 1.  (Find reveals only 
> cd42.iso)
>
> Hope that helps
> --C
> p.s. I'll send my dmesg over as well.
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
>
>> This thread is a bit bothersome for a lot of reasons.  However, there
>> is a lack of hard info so far.
>> 
>> When you say it isn't booting the CD, what does this mean?  Does it try
>> but fail with some error?  Does it not even stop at the CD on the way
>> to attempting to boot the hard disk?
>> 
>> 
>> And let's see what the actual scope of the problem is:
>> 
>> Does the official CD boot?  (I think the point of this thread
>> is for some people, no it doesn't).
>> 
>> Does a copy of the official CD boot?  (Is there any error reported
>> when trying to make a copy?)
>> 
>> For the people that say the official CD doesn't boot, do they have other
>> machines they /can/ boot the official CD?
>> 
>> If people are spotting some machines that do and some that don't, what
>> happens if you move the CD drive from one that does boot to one that
>> doesn't?  Does the problem follow the machine or the drive?
>> 
>> Does a CD made from install42.iso boot?
>> 
>> Does a CD made from cd42.iso boot?
>> 
>> Does a CD made from cdemu42.iso boot?
>> 
>> 
>> If install42.iso or cd42.iso boot, don't be looking for code changes,
>> sounds like we had a bum pressing of CDs or some other "quirk" in the
>> way the master was made, as they all use the same boot process.  Still
>> needs to be identified and fixed for 4.3, but it wouldn't be a code
>> problem.
>> 
>> Nick.