I am aware that OpenBSD is not Linux and never made the assertion that they were the same. That's the reason I am trying to use OpenBSD and not Linux; it is more suited for what I am eventually wanting to do.
I wasn't trying to say "it works in Linux, so why doesn't it work in OpenBSD?" I understand they are different, but I also understand that the BIOS is the defining factor in the bootable partition size limitation. For that reason, it is not unreasonable to expect that if I have a 10gb partition in "XYZ" operating system (insert "Linux") and the BIOS still allows booting from this partition regardless of where the bootloader and kernel falls, the BIOS probably will continue to allow me to boot on a similarly-sized partition with another operating system. If the BIOS will address n-gb for XYZ operating system, it is unlikely to refuse to address that size for OpenBSD. There was nothing lacking in the official documentation. Additionally, the supplemental documentation actually didn't provide very much; most of the OpenBSD stuff I have found is just summarized documentation or verbatim manpages. But if we followed the logic of "if it's not the official documentation, it's no good," there would be no reason for having mailing lists or fora either. The documentation included in the manpages is fantastic, easily the best that I've ever seen with an OS; but as a new user to the *BSD systems, it can be overwhelming at first, and sometimes a dumbed-down guide is a nice preface for a dumbed-down user like myself. Anyway, I dropped the root partition size to <1gb and did clean install, but still this issue prevails. I have been through the BIOS settings time and again and haven't found any setting that would be causing this, nor have I been able to find anything on the OS side. Is it possible (likely?) that this is being caused by hardware? I don't know if it is actually the bootloader that is causing the delay or if the kernel is actually being loaded and hangs for some reason. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Best, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Higgs Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:31 PM To: Ryan Smith Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3 Bootloader waiting for keypress before loading kernel On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Ryan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have assumed that because I have used some resource for new users that I > have not read any of the official documentation. This would be untrue. In > fact, INSTALL.i386 was the first thing I read while grabbing the ISO, but > since I have had no problems with a larger bootable partition with Linux, I > anticipated no problems with the larger partition sizes recommended on the > aforementioned website. The minimum partition sizes from the FAQ are for a > substantially smaller hard drive, and, obviously, scaling the sizes by the > almost order of magnitude of difference would not have been a good idea. > > There are other supplemental resources out there, and not all of them are > bad. > > Thanks anyway. OpenBSD is not Linux. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Install http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive What was lacking about the official resources that the supplemental ones provided? --david
