> perhaps the geometry reported by the pciide(4)
> driver differs from the one determined by the BIOS,

Nope.  I cannot get OpenBSD to boot on my D201GLY motherboard even without the
Promise IDE controller plugged in.  (I've tried both with and without the
Promise IDE controller.)

> However, the best option would be to simply acquire an
> old beige box and install OpenBSD and back up the files
> to another system on your network.

Unfortunately, this seems to be my only option.  It is not good that OpenBSD
will not boot on the D201GLY motherboard.  :-(

Thanks,
Kenneth J. Hendrickson

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