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Greg Gallagher
I just purchased a Sony Viao PCG-Z505HS. It's the new Sony Viao Z505
laptop, out perhaps a week ago. PIII500, 128mb,12 gig hd and very
sweet. Of course, I wipped the dreaded W98 os off of it in favor of
installing OpenBSD. Happily, everything installed just fine off the
CD-Rom drive (I had check this out weeks ago before ordering), and I
even just got X working now.
The problem: I cannot boot unless I use my 2.6 install cd. It stops
on a message "booting partition 3 disk 0"; of course I saw the FAQ info
on this, how to boot and use fdisk and installboot to re-install the
MBR, but to no avail. I even tried to edit the drive geometry (in the
bios and with fdisk), tried to pass the cyl,heads,sectors to fdisk and
to installboot, but to no avail again. I'm pretty bummed at this
moment.
Can someone help me out here? I'm trying *real* hard not to go to
Linux-land, as I'd love to put Open on this thing but I'm stuck and
confused. I can't believe there isn't a way to do it all w/o using an
alternate boot loader as the FAQ suggests. If someone could help me out
that would be great! Oh, we (my co-worker and I) just donated a slew of
Sparcs to the OpenBSD sparc cause if this gets me brownie points or
faster help) ;)
thanks,
Greg Gallagher
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Here's my info:
Bios drive parameters:
17475c 15h 63s (~12 gigs)
moia# fdisk wd0
Disk: wd0 geometry: 1023/255/63 [16434495 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signatures: 0xAA55,0x0
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0]
unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0]
unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0]
unused
*3: A6 0 1 1 - 1022 254 63 [ 63 - 16434432]
OpenBSD
Dmesg:
OpenBSD 2.6 (GENERIC) #696: Tue Nov 2 01:46:05 MST 1999
der...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 496 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SIMD
BIOS mem = 652288 conventional, 133103616 extended
real mem = 133758976
avail mem = 120569856
using 1658 buffers containing 6791168 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(d3) BIOS, date 01/28/00
bios0: diskinfo 0xe055800c cksumlen 1 memmap 0xe05580e8 apminfo
0xe0558194
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.1
apm0: battery life expectancy 100%
apm0: AC on, battery charge high, charging
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX PCI-AGP (PAC)" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP (PAC)" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vendor "Neomagic", unknown product 0x5 (class display, subclass VGA, rev
0x20) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE (PIIX4)" rev 0x01:
DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK1214GAP>
wd0: can use 32-bit, PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 11513MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 23579136
sectors
pciide0: channel 0 interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
"Intel 82371AB USB (PIIX4)" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 not
configured
"Intel 82371AB Power Management (PIIX4)" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 7 function
3 not configured
vendor "Sony", unknown product 0x8039 (class serial bus, subclass
Firewire, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
vendor "Yamaha", unknown product 0x10 (class multimedia, subclass audio,
rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
unknown vendor 0x14f1 product 0x2443 (class communications, subclass
miscellaneous, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured
fxp0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Intel 82557" rev 0x08: irq 9, address
08:00:46:08:ee:ce
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
"Ricoh 5C475 PCI-CardBus" rev 0x80 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 not
configured
vendor "Sony", unknown product 0x808a (class memory, subclass flash, rev
0x01) at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
sb0 at isa0 port 0x220/24 irq 5 drq 1: dsp v3.01
midi0 at sb0: <SB MIDI UART>
audio0 at sb0
opl0 at sb0: model OPL3
midi1 at opl0: <SB Yamaha OPL3>
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi2 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60/16 irq 1: generic VGA, 80 col, color, 8 scr,
mf2-kbd
pms0 at vt0 irq 12
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd0000/16384
pcic0 controller 0: <Intel 82365SL rev 1> has socket A only
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
wdc2 at pcmcia0 function 0 " , NinjaATA-, V1.0" port 0x180/8,0x386/2 irq
3
atapiscsi0 at wdc2 channel 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
wdc_atapi_start: not ready, st = 58
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-1902B, 1624> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable
cd0: can use 16-bit, PIO mode 4
pcic0: irq 11
biomask 4008 netmask 4208 ttymask 5a8a
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
Mohammad Rizal Othman
with a DOS boot disk and did a fdisk /MBR. That did the job.
Andrew Swisher wrote:
>
> I had similar problems with some Compaq 6500s...installing the os-bs bootloader was what finally fixed it for me.
>
> A
>
> ***********************
>
> <SNIP>
> The problem: I cannot boot unless I use my 2.6 install cd. It stops
> on a message "booting partition 3 disk 0"; of course I saw the FAQ info
> on this, how to boot and use fdisk and installboot to re-install the
> MBR, but to no avail. I even tried to edit the drive geometry (in the
> bios and with fdisk), tried to pass the cyl,heads,sectors to fdisk and
> to installboot, but to no avail again. I'm pretty bummed at this
> moment
> <SNIP>