> 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