Thought i'd give my problem its own thread:

After installing OZ I decided to go back to OpenBSD. The install process went OK with my sets on a CF card and using all the microdrive for BSD. However, when it came to rebooting the Z simply dropped into the OZ splash screen with a kernel panic. I tried restoring flash and re-installing but now i get the Sharp splash scree and an hdd error.

I decided to completely clean the HDD usung the D+M menu (which takes a while) and re-installed again. Still no joy when it comes to boot. I'm stuch. Help!

Here is a df done from the emergency D+B menu


cant understand why I've got hda4? doesnt make sense!

during the BSD setup my disk partition looks like this


EDIT
I should add that the installation will boot if I drop back to d+b linux shell and do insmod zbsdmod.o then ./zboot. Sorry, but I really dont understand what makes a machine actually boot but clearly something is wrong here.

Well, I finally worked it out, and it also seems to answer this post, where the poster was coming directly from OZ, as was I. He also claimed to be a veteran of BSD installing so went straight to the D+B menu and the insmod commands.

http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24159

Having read this, I remembered that the two successful installs I had done both came from having cacko on the Z and installing the OpenBSDxx.ipk file. My experience was that this install file did no appear to do anything except hang the Z so was not worth doing. It seemed to be better to skip straight to the D+M menu and the insmod command sequence.

However, it seems that the Sharp/Cacko IPK file does something that enables the Z to boot directly into OpenBSD once you have done a successful intstall. I guess it tinkers with the scripts held in flash.

So, in summary, to install OpenBSD so that it boots without having to go to the D+B menu, make sure you start from a Sharp/Cacko build and run the BSD install IPK. You'll find it in the feed.

Enjoy!