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by **pete_simpsoo..** » Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I have just installed OpenBSD 2.6. The install
process was pretty painless as i expected, but
when i ahd completed the installation, i reboot,
the atempted to boot from the disk as i had been
instructed to do. I typed the following but
nothing worked:
boot wd0a:/bsd
boot wd0a:/bsd.old (i then tried things
like /obsd etc etc)
I even tried changing wd0a to hd0a (some one on
irc told me to do this). I have a single ide
harddisk. And i HAVE installed the bsd kernel onto it. This has been
bugging me for a while
now. I tried using osbs20b8 boot manager too (i
am dual booting openbsd + win98), wehn i tried to
boot the openbsd partition osbs20b8
return "missing operating system". If any one
has any ideas on how to get around this problem,
PLEASE reply, i'm in dire need of using a *nix
again.

Thanks
Peter Simpson.

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by **bws** » Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I don't know if my problem was similar to yours, but here is how I fixed
it. I dual boot win 98 and openbsd off two hard drives. At first I
wanted to run openbsd completely from the secod, but there did not
appear to be a convenient way to boot from the second disk, so I shrunk
the win 98 partition on the first disk by about 1 gig for the /
partition and put /home, /var, and /usr on the second. I went through
the installation painlessly as you, but come boot there was nothing. So
after several reinstalls, I figured out that for some reason it was not
formatting the / partition so I had to go in in single user mode and
format it with newfs and rerun the install. Before you try this, go in
in single user mode and do a

disklabel wd0

and

fdisk wd0

They should just print out some info, and you should be able to tell
whether that is your problem. Hope that helps,

Br3nd4n.

Quote:> I have just installed OpenBSD 2.6. The install
> process was pretty painless as i expected, but
> when i ahd completed the installation, i reboot,
> the atempted to boot from the disk as i had been
> instructed to do. I typed the following but
> nothing worked:
> boot wd0a:/bsd
> boot wd0a:/bsd.old (i then tried things
> like /obsd etc etc)
> I even tried changing wd0a to hd0a (some one on
> irc told me to do this). I have a single ide
> harddisk. And i HAVE installed the bsd kernel onto it. This has been
> bugging me for a while
> now. I tried using osbs20b8 boot manager too (i
> am dual booting openbsd + win98), wehn i tried to
> boot the openbsd partition osbs20b8
> return "missing operating system". If any one
> has any ideas on how to get around this problem,
> PLEASE reply, i'm in dire need of using a *nix
> again.

> Thanks
> Peter Simpson.

> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

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booting 2.6, HELP!

booting 2.6, HELP!

booting 2.6, HELP!