On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:13:28PM +0200, Vincent Immler wrote: > Hi folks, > > I own a HP Compaq nc6220. I really like this notebook, business look and > quality. But I have a serious problem with OpenBSD. > I just tried an OpenBSD 3.9 installation CD on it and can't boot > properly (already had that problem with OpenBSD 3.8) > > The boot process stops at different points every time, so it doesn't > help to disable devices (anyway I tried it!) > > Does anyone have similar problems? Is there any solution available? The > Hardware should be fine (~6 months old, Windows/FreeBSD/Knoppix all work!)! > I don't want to sell this notebook and buy a Thinkpad instead ... ;-\ > Thanks for your help in advance.
This sounds like the SATA controller is not set up properly. There are several fixes for Intel SATA in -current that make things compatible with more machines. Try a snapshot.
