El_Hormono wrote:

> Hi All and a happy new year!
>
> Some time ago I decided to build my own OpenBSD Firewall/NAT appliance
> for my home network with an old PC and 2 NIC's.
> So I ordered my OpenBDS 3.3 cd's and started installing.
>
> After a few tries I got OpenBSD installed, but each time I tried
> booting, it came up with "Bad Magic" and that was it.
> So I tried again and again (installing and booting). -> "Bad Magic"
>
> The most common cause of this is that OBSD is not in the first 8 GB of
> the hard disk.
> Or so I read in the FAQ on openbsd.org .
> This is cannot be the issue here, because my hd is only 4GB.
> So I wrote my Unix Usersgroup that I subscribe to, but they too could
> not find me an answer.
>
> I searched the newsgroups, but no help for me there.
> So i kinda gave up.
>
> Until last week when testing this Mobo for a friend of mine, I
> attached my OpenBSD harddisk just to see if it was recognised by the
> BIOS and to my utter surprise it booted with all the settings I made
> during installation.
>
> I think probably OpenBSD has a problem with the IDE-controller of my
> motherboard but i cannot find a solution.
>
> Can anyone please help me out here?
>
> Setup:
> Asus P2L97 motherboard
> Pentium II 266 MHz
> 2x 32 MB PC66
> Maxtor 4,2 GB IDE harddrive.
>
> The harddrive is recognised by the mobo and windows runs fine on this
> combination.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Remy Heiden

Actually, depending on your bios the limit could be on 8 GB (which in
your config it is obviously not), but also on 512 MB. Keep / within
that boundary and you will probably see that it _will_ boot.

EJ
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