Disabling acpi (in OpenBSD 4.5) does not work.
Any help would be appreciated.  I do *not* want to lose my old data!
Thanks,

Ken 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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