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

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).

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#mac68kInstCrash

> 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."

you know...  I'm looking at my boot message output, and I don't see
that message ANYWHERE in the boot process.  I just rebooted my mac68k
system just to check (and I captured all kernel output with a serial
console!).  Granted, that was with 3.4-current, not 3.3-anything...so
maybe the pmap message no longer shows, but that's not a message I'm
remembering (what ever that is worth).  More details here, please?

...
> 
> 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.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#mac68k2disks
So yes, depending on where you are getting this message, this could
well be your problem.

My experience has been the kernel loads completely and the system is
well on its way to booting before it crashes and burns with multiple
drives.

That "pmap" message is throwing me for a loop, though.

Nick.
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