Hello misc@, My laptop wouldn't finish booting either the i386 or amd64 ISO's from the 4.3 CD set using an Ultrabase X6 and ultrabay slim CDRW/DVD drive. It hung after detecting the fingerprint reader. I tried disabling 'acpidock' in the boot config (mentioned in http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120976924029298&w=2), but ACPI didn't seem to work anyway. I upgraded the system firmware to the latest version but that didn't help.
After a few failed boots I let the boot process continue for at least ten minutes. The console logged an 'ahci0' error message a few minutes after the fingerprint reader line. I changed the SATA option in the BIOS to "Compatibility Mode" from "AHCI" and both ISOs worked afterwards. I've attached boot logs obtained through kermit over serial console for both ISOs with and without AHCI enabled. Brad Walker [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-log which had a name of i386-ahci-problem.log] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-log which had a name of i386-no-ahci-success.log] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-log which had a name of amd64-ahci-problem.log] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-log which had a name of amd64-no-ahci-session.log]
