I've tried a few times to get OpenBSD (3.8 beta from mid-late August) installed on a Proliant DL 380 G1 with a SmartArray 5i controller. The good news is that the installation CD found the RAID1 array and used it as /dev/sd0 to install the OS.
The part I'm having trouble with is getting the box to boot from the installed disk. When it boots, it claims no operating system is found. I can boot afterwards with a floppy or CD just fine and then mount /dev/sd0a and chroot into my OpenBSD root partition. Things I tried: I always tell the installer to use the whole disk. I can see the "A6" label created in MBR partition 3. I see the machine blink the drive lights when it claims to be writing an MBR. I have even run "fdisk -e sd0" with "flag" to make sure the OpenBSD partition is a bootable partition. I have even tried swapping the penBSD partition to partition 0 instead of 3. I followed details frmm FAQ 14.8 to redo the "./installboot" of [/mnt]/usr/mdec/biosboot. Things I'd rather not try: Install a working bootable Linux partition and use grub to boot OpenBSD. I'm not an expert, so I admit I may be overlooking something newbie-like, .. ... but if others got their older Proliants to boot, I was wonder what tricks, if any, they needed to get it to work. Thanks, Eric Ziegast ez -at- zoovy - com ziegast -at- vix - com PS: Hi Todd!
