Which kernel are you booting? If you only boot 'bsd', you need a fully-installed system to use that. You need to make sure to boot the 'bsd.rd' kernel.
On 2012 Dec 20 (Thu) at 18:01:44 +0200 (+0200), What you get is Not what you see wrote: :I try to install OpenBSD 5.2 i386 to a box with this board. :It has an Intel G645 Pentium processor with 4GB of ram and a 500G of Sata3 :hard drive. :It has an onboard AR8151 ethernet which I understand is not supported by :the generic kernel. :There is a web page about a diff workaround which dont I dont bother now :because I plan to use other nics in the worst case. :So my problem is not currently with this nic now. :I hardly installed 5.2 generic (it took 5-6 hours, because the cdrom was :too slow) and now it cant boot. :I mean, when booting it comes to this line in dmesg :root on wd0a ..... swap on wd0b dump on wd0b :and the error occurs :"init : cannot stat /etc/login.conf No such file or directory :sh: /etc/rc No such file or directory :init: /etc/pwd.db No such file .... :Enter pathname of shell ....." : :I guess the /etc/ filesystem is not mounted or there is no such filesystem. :I try to change some bios settings without success. :Even I tried disable acpi option when booting but this leads to debugger :menu from where I dont know how to report the dump etc. : :So any help would be appreciated. :Here is the board manifacture's web page :http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4141 : -- Lizzie Borden took an axe, And plunged it deep into the VAX; Don't you envy people who Do all the things ___YOU want to do?
