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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

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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Hi,

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:05:28 +0100
"El_Hormono" <El_Hormono@zonnet.nl> wrote:

[about problems with P2L97 & OpenBSD 3.4]

I use the same Board and the same os without problem...

PII 300@375
1x128MB, 1x64MB, 1x32MB Ram PC (???-133)@83 MHz FSB
2 x 40GB (Seagate)
2 Nic's (RLT 8139)

and it works fine... I know, this will dont help you ...

And I'm a newbee too, so i dont know the mistake, but... You say,
that windows runs fine ... which windows? My Sister had an old PCChips
board in her PC and this board only work with 2k/xp. (the manufactor
say, that it's optimized for 9x...) i have no chance with NT,or 9x.
(ME - I dont know) I assume, there is an hardware Bug and i think that's
your problem too.

A Attach my dmesg, that you may find a difference. (i thik, they had to
look very similar)

If you need the documentation or one Bios for this board feel free to
mail me.

HTH

sorry abourt my poor english ...

Cheers

Steffen

PS:

$ dmesg
OpenBSD 3.4 (GENERIC) #18: Wed Sep 17 03:34:47 MDT 2003
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium II ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 375
MHz cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC A,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,
FXS R
real mem = 234459136 (228964K)
avail mem = 211259392 (206308K)
using 2887 buffers containing 11825152 bytes (11548K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(b8) BIOS, date 07/04/00, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xf04d0 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xd52
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xf0cc0/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:04:0 ("Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA" rev
0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443LX PCI-AGP" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443LX AGP" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
channel 0 wi red to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST340014A>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38166MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78165360
sectors atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-540E, 3.0A> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <ST340014A>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38166MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78165360
sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
uhci0 at pci0 dev 4 function 2 "Intel 82371AB USB" rev 0x01: irq 12
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
"Intel 82371AB Power Mgmt" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 4 function 3 not
configured rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 10
address 00:e0:7d:7 d:a8:55
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy
rl1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11 address
00:00:21:d 4:f4:34
rlphy1 at rl1 phy 0: RTL internal phy
vga1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "ATI Mach64 GU" rev 0x9a
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83781D
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask d040 netmask dc40 ttymask dc42
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
$

| [about problems with P2L97 & OpenBSD 3.4]
|
| I use the same Board and the same os without problem...
|
| PII 300@375
| 1x128MB, 1x64MB, 1x32MB Ram PC (???-133)@83 MHz FSB
| 2 x 40GB (Seagate)
| 2 Nic's (RLT 8139)

BIOS upgrade anyone ?

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:23:52 +0100
"Bas Keur" <viper@dmrt.net> wrote:

> | [about problems with P2L97 & OpenBSD 3.4]
> |
> | I use the same Board and the same os without problem...
> |
> | PII 300@375
> | 1x128MB, 1x64MB, 1x32MB Ram PC (???-133)@83 MHz FSB
> | 2 x 40GB (Seagate)
> | 2 Nic's (RLT 8139)
>
> BIOS upgrade anyone ?

Hmm, i dont know the Bios Version on this pc *whoops - sorry* - is it
possible to find out the Bios Version without restart? I have no monitor
and no keyboard on this machine ... :-) Only Power Cable and the LAN...
;-)

(but i can look at it at weekend...)

I'm supprised ... the only available Page from Asus about this Board
comes from Italy (???) However, may take a look at:

http://www.asus.it/support/download/...odelName=P2L97

But if it is a hardware bug, he shoult test the memory with memtest86,
(thats what i recomment first) then can try to swicht off the ide
controller by bios... so he may find the mistake.

Steffen

PS: you see, i now use 3.4, but the system works with 3.3 (CD Version)
too.

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:24:50 +0100
Steffen Hetzel <no.spam@arcor.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:23:52 +0100
> "Bas Keur" <viper@dmrt.net> wrote:
>
> > | [about problems with P2L97 & OpenBSD 3.4]
> > |
> > | I use the same Board and the same os without problem...
> > |
> > | PII 300@375
> > | 1x128MB, 1x64MB, 1x32MB Ram PC (???-133)@83 MHz FSB
> > | 2 x 40GB (Seagate)
> > | 2 Nic's (RLT 8139)
> >
> > BIOS upgrade anyone ?

Jumper Settings ... without bios tweak...

Sorry to make an off-topic discussion.

May I know what is the main reason for "bad magic" occcurred? Seems,
sometimes, when I configure my server, it's okay, but when I configure
another identical servers, this message displayed on the screen.

Regards,
zam4ever