Greetings, This is quite strange: very occassionally (perhaps a rate of 1 in 25 occasions or so?) automatic booting 3.9/i386 fails, but manually booting via the console works. Below is the console output and other potentially relevant information - is this faulty hardware (I suspect it is given the problem's sporadic nature), or something else?
booting hd0a:: open hd0a:: No such file or directory failed(2). will try /obsd boot> trace boot> ps boot> boot booting hd0a:/obsd: 4966248+867848 [52+255872+237161]=0x608d04 entry point at 0x100120 [ using 493460 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2006 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #1: Wed Mar 14 00:36:26 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 549 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX ,FXSR,SSE cpu0: disabling processor serial number real mem = 133734400 (130600K) avail mem = 115302400 (112600K) using 1658 buffers containing 6791168 bytes (6632K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(ff) BIOS, date 03/03/00, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0210 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0200/0xb00 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf9e00/128 (6 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "S3 Savage 4" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wi red to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 91021U2> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9770MB, 20010816 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SONY, CD-RW CRX100E, 2.0h> SCSI0 5/cdrom removabl e cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "Intel 82371AB USB" rev 0x01: irq 5 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x02: polling iic0 at piixpm0 eso0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "ESS SOLO-1 AudioDrive" rev 0x01: ES1946, irq 10 eso0: mapping Audio 1 DMA using VC I/O space at 0x8cc0 audio0 at eso0 opl0 at eso0: model OPL3 midi0 at opl0: <ESO Yamaha OPL3> "Conexant 56k Winmodem" rev 0x08 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured sis0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83815C: irq 10, a ddress 00:a0:cc:74:48:46 nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 rl0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Accton MPX 5030/5038" rev 0x10: irq 9, address 00 :10:b5:08:5c:32 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 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 midi1 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom0: console pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask f965 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks. /dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0g: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0d: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0f: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0e: file system is clean; not checking setting tty flags pf enabled net.inet.ip.forwarding: 0 -> 1 starting network starting system logger starting named starting initial daemons: ntpd. savecore: no core dump checking quotas: done. building ps databases: kvm dev. clearing /tmp starting pre-securelevel daemons:. setting kernel security level: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1 creating runtime link editor directory cache. preserving editor files starting network daemons: rwhod sendmail ftp-proxy inetd sshd. starting local daemons:. standard daemons: cron. Thu Apr 19 09:12:41 CST 2007 OpenBSD/i386 (wendolene.ags) (tty00) login: # disklabel wd0 # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 20000862 # /dev/rwd0c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: Maxtor 91021U2 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 16383 total sectors: 20010816 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 204561 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 202 # Cyl 0*- 202 b: 614880 204624 swap # Cyl 203 - 812 c: 20010816 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 19851 d: 245952 819504 4.2BSD 2048 16384 244 # Cyl 813 - 1056 e: 409248 1065456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 1057 - 1462 f: 8388576 1474704 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 1463 - 9784 g: 4194288 9863280 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 9785 - 13945 # mount /dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/wd0g on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/wd0d on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/wd0f on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/wd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) # atactl wd0 identify Model: Maxtor 91021U2, Rev: FA520860, Serial #: G209L89C Device type: ATA, fixed Cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sec/track: 63, total sectors: 20010816 Device capabilities: ATA standby timer values IORDY operation IORDY disabling Device supports the following standards: ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 Device supports the following command sets: NOP command READ BUFFER command WRITE BUFFER command Host Protected Area feature set Read look-ahead Write cache Power Management feature set SMART feature set Advanced Power Management feature set DOWNLOAD MICROCODE command Device has enabled the following command sets/features: NOP command READ BUFFER command WRITE BUFFER command Host Protected Area feature set Read look-ahead Write cache Power Management feature set SMART feature set DOWNLOAD MICROCODE command # atactl wd0 smartread Off-line data collection: status: never started activity completion time: 0 seconds capabilities: execute immediate read scanning self-test routines Self-test execution: status: completed ok or not started recommended polling time: short routine: 2 minutes extended routine: 9 minutes SMART capabilities: saving SMART data enable/disable attribute autosave Error logging: supported # atactl wd0 readattr Attributes table revision: 16 ID Attribute name Threshold Value Raw 1 Raw Read Error Rate 0 253 0x65a100078cce 3 Spin Up Time 63 240 0x0b9200000036 4 Start/Stop Count 0 253 0x0000000005e0 5 Reallocated Sector Count 63 253 0x000000000000 6 Unknown 100 253 0x000000000000 7 Seek Error Rate 0 253 0x00000000e06f 8 Seek Time Performance 187 252 0xf28c0004ba6c 9 Power-on Hours Count 0 238 0x00000004fe8a 10 Spin Retry Count 223 253 0x00000000004c 11 Unknown 223 253 0x000000000055 12 Device Power Cycle Count 0 250 0x0000000005b1 196 Reallocation Event Count 0 253 0x000000000000 197 Current Pending Sector Count 0 253 0x000000000000 198 Off-line Scan Uncorrectable Sect 0 253 0x000000000000 199 Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 0 199 0x000000000550 200 Unknown 0 253 0x0000000649d8 201 Unknown 0 253 0x004700078cce 202 Unknown 0 253 0x000000078cce 203 Unknown 180 253 0x000400078cce 204 Unknown 0 253 0x000000078cce 205 Unknown 0 253 0x000000078cce 207 Unknown 0 253 0x00000000004c 208 Unknown 0 253 0x00000000004c 209 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 96 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 97 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 98 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 99 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 100 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 101 Unknown 0 253 0x000000000000 Any advice will be appreciated! Kind regards, Damon