Hi all,

  Well, I took the plunge this weekend,& tried to load OpenBSD 2.8 on an old
P-100 that I have laying around, & as you can tell by the subject line, it
was not a complete success. To begin with, I was following the instructions
located on OpenBSD's site at:

 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

In addition, I wish to set this up as a server, I have no need to maintain
DOS compatibility, nor to dual-boot. (IOW, I don't care if I blow all of
the current info on the HD away!) ;~) AFAIK, this eliminates the "1st 1024
cylinders" issue... (I hope someone will let me know if I'm wrong...)

  First, I was able to use rawrite only for the 1st image that I downloaded
(floppy28.fs). Any other image that I tried to create (floppyB28.fs or
floppyC28.fs) returned an error that said that rawrite was unable to find
the files - even though they were in the same directory as the original file
that it *did* write. I tried it using the exact case of the file names,
then in a case-insensitive manner, then using explicit paths, all with no
difference. Strange... I guess my next step will be to try downloading all
of it again, & again attempt to create the images, this time on a different
system. Anyone have any other thoughts?

  In actuality, the inability to create the other images wouldn't have been
an issue if the following hadn't been a problem... When I attempted to boot
the from the floppy that *was* successfully created, after presenting me
with a boot: > prompt for a couple of seconds, it would continue with the
normal boot process. All went OK until it (apparently) tried to access the
HD, then it simply timed out. The relevant dmesg section is below:

   wd0 at pciide channel 0 drive 0 <WDC AC38400L>
   wd0: can use 16-bit PIO mode 4
   wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063 MB 16383 cyl, 16 hds, 63 sectors 16514064
sect.
   pciide0: channel 0 interrupting at IRQ 14
   atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1
   scsi bus 0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
   pciide0:1:0: device timeout, c_bcount=0, c_skip=0
   pciide0:1:0: device timeout, c_bcount=0, c_skip=0
   pciide0:1:0: device timeout, c_bcount=0, c_skip=0

That last line just repeated until I canceled the install attempt. Just
FYI, there's nothing special about this system except for the fact that I've
upgraded the HD, & therefore it has the translation software (EZ-Drive?)
that allows one to run the larger HD. FWIW, I tried running the install
both with & without using the translation software, the failure was
identical in each case.

  I'm fairly certain that RH 7 has the updated lilo, I certainly would have
thought that the latest versions of *BSD would have accounted for this as
well... (???) I also have a strong preference to use BSD on this system
(it's intended to be a firewall for my home broadband connection, & I
already have one Linux box), but I guess I can go back to Linux if need
be... I'd prefer to get this working though, as I'd like to learn BSD.

Any relevant thoughts, suggestions, advice would be very much appreciated.

TK

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