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

Trying to boot OpenBSD 3.3 on a IIci, I wrote:
>> When I boot, things appear to start well, but then hangs at
>> "Bootstrapping the pmap system."

Nick said:
> you know...  I'm looking at my boot message output, and I don't see
> that message ANYWHERE in the boot process.... More details here, 
> please?

Unfortunately, I have no idea what it *should* look like. I get a few 
messages in the MacOS window suggesting things are happening. then, I 
get a full-screen console with messages:

[using 380255 bytes bsd a.out symbol table]
Bootstrapping OpenBSD/mac68k
System RAM 20643840 bytes in 5040 pages
    Low=....
    Low=...
    Low=...
  Video adress = ...
  Int video starts at ...
  Length = ...
Done.
Bootstraping the pmap system.

Then it hangs

>> Could it be the [second] external drive?

> So yes, depending on where you are getting this message, this could 
> well be your problem.

I didn't get far enough that I thought this was the issue. But, I seem 
to have a MacOS issue, which may be the real problem. Since you all 
seem patient, here's the saga in full:

I removed the original Apple (quantum) 80 Mb drive and swapped in an 
IBM 2 Gb interal drive (DORS 32160). I booted off an external drive, 
initialized and partitioned using Apple SC HD Setup 3.0.1 (A/UX), 
making a MacOS (HFS) partition as well as several Unix partitions. I 
then dragged System (7.1) folder from the external drive to the 
internal drive's MacOS partition. If I set the internal drive as the 
starrtup disk, it will not boot with the external drive off. If I turn 
on the external drive, it boots, and apparently off the internal drive.

In an attempt to fix the problem, I downloaded and installed 7.5.3 on 
the internal (IBM) drive. No better. Boots fine into 7.5.3, clearly off 
the internal drive, but only with the external drive on. Then I 
downloaded the Apple HD Setup 7.3.5, applied the patch for non-Apple 
drives, and ran Update on the internal IBM drive. No better. I can 
unmount the external drive (it is not the boot drive), but if I do, the 
system hangs.

I think if I can solve this wierdness, it will boot into OpenBSD, but 
I'm about at the end of ideas. Any more ideas out there? Should I 
reinitialize with HD Setup 7.3.5 (trying to avoid the hours of 
tranferring OpenBSD files and installing)? Thanks!

-Eric
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Eric Salathe   <[email protected]>