Re: 3.0 woe [was: Adaptec 2940 and fresh install problems]

[Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>]

At 2:13 PM +0000 1/1/02, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
>I'd prefer to use the usual "wow" for OpenBSD.
>
>I just can't believe that 3.0 will not install on two different motherboards
>and assorted hardware capable of running just about every other free 
>Unix I can
>lay my hands on. 
>
>Using 2.9, I am able to boot from the CD and proceed through the installation
>process normally, however the 3.0 CD doesn't boot (it reboots the computer in
>an endless loop) with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card present.
<snip>

I saw a similar thing recently on a weird* box I'm going to use as my 
home firewall. No SCSI card present, but it would reboot at random 
*if* it ever got through the boot sequence w/o rebooting. It may not 
be the same problem, but the symptoms sound similar. The answer for 
me was a BIOS upgrade for the mobo, after which the only problem I 
have is a lack of power to keep it running. Since your problem seems 
to follow the card, I'd check Adaptec's site for an update to the 
2940 BIOS. Not much more than a WAG, but it might help.

-Kit

*Weird meaning an AT/Socket-7 motherboard with SDRAM & an AGP slot.
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