On 04/22/14 12:08, Mike Grau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to OpenBSD and hope someone here has been able to install
> OpenBSD on a Dell PE R210. It will not boot the install CD (made from
> install54.iso). Here's the console:
>
> CD-ROM: 82
> Loading /5.4/AMD64/CDBOOT
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[624K 3061M a20=on]
> disk:
>
> _
>
>
> The R210 _does_ boot from a linux install disk, and this same OpenBSD
> install CD does boot when used in a Dell Optiplex GX520.
>
> Is there something that needs to be done more than setting the boot
> sequence in the bios for the PE R210 boot from the CD?
obviously, it IS trying to boot from the CD. However, it appears to be
choking on something, and it appears to be disk related.
This is curious -- I've run OpenBSD on R200s, R710, R820, R310 and a
whole lot of other machines AROUND your R210, but not an R210.
At that point, the boot loader (which it loaded successfully from CD) is
looking for BIOS disk devices. Look for things in the BIOS that it
could be tripping over -- on-board SD card flash (recovery card? Can't
remember what they call it), floppy (yeah, Dell doesn't have a floppy in
the R210, but there might still be floppy support in the bios), DRAC,
etc. Make sure you have the most recent BIOS on the machine
On my laptop I just happen to have handy, the cdboot process looks like
this:
CD-ROM: 9F
Loading /5.5/I386/CDBOOT
probing: pc0 com0 com1 apm pci mem[639K 510M a20=on]
disk: fd0 hd0+ cd0
>> OpenBSD/i386 CDBOOT 3.23
boot>
So we can see you are hanging at the disk enumeration step.
Oh...um...are you actually on a monitor and keyboard, or are you using a
serial console? Funny things can happen if the BIOS was doing
redirection, then figures the OS is loaded and hands control of the
serial port over to the OS at that point. Not EXACTLY where I'd expect
that error, but ...
IF you are using a serial console, you would want to add a
/etc/boot.conf file to your CD with the serial redirection command on it
("set tty com0").
Nick.
