I have a new PC (Athlon 64 on a Abit KN8 Ultra mobo (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=285)) that I wanted to test drive OpenBSD on. My first attempt involved a harddrive with a fresh 3.9 i386 install; however, that failed to finish booting (hand-copied dmesg below). I then tried booting off of the i386 install CD only to have the boot fail at the same point. I tried both kernels (bsd on the hd & bsd.rd on the CD) with both "fail safe" BIOS settings and with every possible device disabled.
Finally tried booting off of the amd64 CD; install went smooth, everything seems to work. I don't know if "not working with a 32 bit kernel" is an issue, but if anyone wants me to test something I can do that. Dmesgs: i386 on this computer: OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ ("AuthenticAMD") 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 1.81 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3 cpu0: AMD Powernow: TS FID VID TTP TM STC cpu0: AMD Cool`n'Quiet K8 available states (15000,26900) real mem = 2145886208 (2095592K) avail mem = 1951965184 (1906216K) using 4278 buffers containing 107397120 bytes (104880K0 of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(97) BIOS, date 02/13/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa850 amp0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 3.0 @ 0xf0000/0xcd44 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfcc30/240 (13 entries) pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 15 Interrupt Routing table entries pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 3 5 7 10 11 pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing pcibios0: PCI bus #5 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xee00 *** this is where booting stops *** amd64: OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #462: Thu Mar 2 03:52:16 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 2145906688 (2095612K) avail mem = 1834913792 (1791908K) using 22937 buffers containing 214798336 bytes (209764K) of memory mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, 1808.55 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 "NVIDIA nForce4 DDR" rev 0xa3 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 ISA" rev 0xa3 nviic0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce4 SMBus" rev 0xa2 iic0 at nviic0 "unknown" at iic0 addr 0x2e not configured iic1 at nviic0 ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 USB" rev 0xa2: irq 10, version 1.0, legacy support usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: NVIDIA OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 10 ports with 10 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce4 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 5 usb1 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: NVIDIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 10 ports with 10 removable, self powered auich0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 AC97" rev 0xa2: irq 7, nForce4 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x414c4790 (Avance Logic ALC850) audio0 at auich0 pciide0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 IDE" rev 0xf2: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 2B015H1> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 14753MB, 30214800 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ASUS, CD-S520/A, 1.0D> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 SATA 1" rev 0xf3: DMA pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt pciide2 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 SATA 2" rev 0xf3: DMA pciide2: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt ppb0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 PCI-PCI" rev 0xa2 pci1 at ppb0 bus 5 nfe0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "NVIDIA CK804 LAN" rev 0xa3: irq 3, address 00:50:8d:84:12:9a ciphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY, rev. 3 ppb1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 PCIE" rev 0xa3 pci2 at ppb1 bus 4 ppb2 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 PCIE" rev 0xa3 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 PCIE" rev 0xa3 pci4 at ppb3 bus 2 ppb4 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce4 PCIE" rev 0xa3 pci5 at ppb4 bus 1 vga1 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0391 rev 0xa1 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pchb0 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg" rev 0x00 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 intr_establish: pic pic0 pin 7: can't share type 3 with 2 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302