On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:44:16PM -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> This is a very disappointing result!!! :-(

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>

> 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.

Use another system that's booting ok and put the promise cards with

its disks into it. 
	-Otto
>

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> 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:

> > 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

> >

> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which

> had a name of dmesg]

> >

> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which

> had a name of fdisk]

> >

> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which

> had a name of disklabel]

> >

> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which

> had a name of OpenBSD.PDR]