Hi, I had a pentium-pro 100 MHz laying around. To make use of it, I wanted to install openbsd 3.4 on it (openbsd 3.4 because that was the distro that I have).
The machine is a bare bones machine that I had used a long time ago. Did nto get rid of it, so thought why not use it by having a bsd OS on it. The install went fine (installed all the packages bsd, bsd.rd, base34.tgz etc, except the x*.tgz ones, since I will not use X on that machine). With NetBSD 4.0 I had a problem before install. It was rebooting the machine without any messages or warnings. I am using install floppies (I am using the floppy drive to boot the install kernel and the local hard drive to load the installation packages mentioned above). Anyway, after installing the base packages on an openBSD partition, I boot the machine (on the boot prompt I am specifying the kernel via boot hd1a:/bsd). The kernel loads fine and begins listing the devices found on the machine. At the end it comes to a point where it says: biomask <num> netmask <num> ttymask <num> pctr: 586-class performance counters and user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81 root on wd1a rootdev=<hex-num> rrootdev=<hex-num> rawdev=<hex-num> At this point the machine hangs. >From Netbsd I know that at a point like this, when it says root on wd1a (and another msg about the swap device) it starts the rc script. But with OpenBSD I do not know if that is the case? I have added an "echo" message at the very beginning to the /etc/rc script on wd1a, thinking that maybe something in the script was causing something to hang the machine, but the message did not show. That may also be because of something else, and the rc script might be working after all. Is there a way to pinpoint the problem? When the "root at wd1a" is displayed, isn't this the point where init forks or transfers to the rc script to start the deamons? Any hints are welcome. Thanks in advance, obu.
