Marco Peereboom wrote:
Have you tried 3.9 yet?
Smith wrote:
Marco Peereboom wrote:
No it does not. It specifies very clearly which ones are supported.
I bet you are looking at the FAQ as-of 3.9.
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:17:44AM -0700, Smith wrote:
David Hill wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:44:22AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2006/04/04 20:21, David Hill wrote:
Are you using floppyB, which supports RAID controllers?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkInsMedia
OpenBSD 3.8 (RAMDISK_CD) #794: Sat Sep 10 15:58:32 MDT 2005
So does the CD - the controller would appear as an unsupported
device if this was the case anyway, and it's not listed at all.
Unsupported bridge somewhere perhaps? Try a snapshot...
Ahh, true. I didn't look close enough.
I used the cd38.iso which the FAQ says has all the drivers.
At http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html it says:
This FAQ is supplemental documentation to the man pages, available
both in the installed system and online
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi>. The FAQ covers the active
release of OpenBSD, currently v3.8.
Section 4.3 on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkInsMedia says:
*cd38.iso* .... This image has the widest selection of drivers, and
is usually the recommended choice if your hardware can boot from a
CDROM.
So I don't see how I'm mistaken. If I am, enlighten me. I'm not
afraid to be corrected.
After further troubleshooting, this is what I found. On rare
occasions the install CD will find it as sd0, especially after I hit
^T after the very first prompt in the installation. But after
completing the install, I get a debug message and it will not
complete the full boot process. I also tried the cd39.iso (snapshot)
cd and it was no go too. I called the vendor who created the server
and they suggested that I move the LSI card from the pci-express slot
to the regular pci slot. Everything worked at that point. But now
I'm having problems with OpenBSD detecting one of the two nic cards
(em1). But the thing is, there were times when it did detect it.
But now when I play with the bios, dmesg says that it can't allocated
mem to em1. I strongly suspect I have a bad motherboard.
I wrote: I also tried the cd39.iso (snapshot) cd.
Would it make a difference if I did the cd39.iso release version, which
I don't have access to since I haven't bought a cd yet? By the way I
don't mean to sound smart.
PCI-express or PCI-X, I don't know the difference and didn't know there
was a difference. I'm a network guy not a hardware guy. I just
remember the vendor saying PCI-express. I looked at the documentation
for the card and all I got was that the LSI card will fit in both 32-bit
and 64-bit pci slots.
I'm suppose to take the server down to the vendor and show them how to
install OpenBSD to test the replacement motherboard and also so they can
test any future purchases I make with them. When I do and if it we run
into problems, I will try the "disable pcibios" tip.
