Re: Booting problem on IIci with IBM DORS-32160 HD

Could it be the RAM cache in the IIci?  I had a problem with OpenBSD on a 
Mac IIci that was solved by removing the (unsupported) RAM cache 
card.  This is a plugin card located roughly in the middle of the case, not 
in a NuBus slot.

At 14:26 2003-10-20 -0700, Michael wrote:
>Does your IIci have a hardware FPU?  I think this is about where things 
>hang if you don't have an FPU.
>
>On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 13:11 US/Pacific, Eric Salathe wrote:
>
>>Hi-
>>
>>I'm installing OpenBSD 3.3 on a IIci, IBM DORS-32160 HD, 20MB RAM, 
>>internal video (only card is Asante NIC).
>>
>>I successfully installed kernel, base33, and etc on a 200Mb root & usr 
>>partition. (Installer failed on a larger partition, so after some web 
>>searching, came up with this soln).
>>
>>I am booting the IIci into system 7.1 from an external Western Digital drive.
>>
>>When I boot, things appear to start well, but then hangs at 
>>"Bootstrapping the pmap system."
>>
>>I have tried the following:
>>
>>-Both bsd and bsd_sbc kernels
>>-virtual memory is off, 32-bit addressing is on
>>-Booter has 5/8mb (min/pref) memory assigned
>>-screen is set to b&w
>>-boot 7.1 with no extensions (hold shift on boot)
>>
>>Any other suggestions?
>>
>>Could it be the external drive. I copied System Folder to an HDF 
>>partition on the internal (IBM) drive, but it will not boot. So I stuck 
>>with booting off the WD external drive.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>--
>>Eric Salathe   <[email protected]>
>>
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