In my last diary entry I told of my inability to install FreeBSD on my old Pentium 90, now known as "junkyard". Well, I decided to use OpenBSD, and it's not booting, either.

While FreeBSD was unable to recognize my hard disk in order to mount my root partition (strange, considering it was booting off it), OpenBSD comes up I get messages that it's mounting all my partitions (ah, slices?) just fine.

The line after the mounting is done reads "setting tty flags".

... and that's it. I've let it sit for a half hour, and it just ain't going any further.

So much for being cooler than the linux geeks. I could install Debian on this box in my sleep. Everything is really standard; I don't see why the BSDs I've tried can't grok it. It's not like I didn't try hard.

Oh well, maybe I will try The Hurd.

On another note, here in MN we're really depressed over the tragic demise of Senator Wellstone. There's not much I can say about it -- I was certainly going to vote for him.