Re: Bad mojo

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Mihail wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I've recently upgraded my 3.4-R system
> to -current and now I'm having problems
> booting. Just after the upgrade I was able
> to boot normally and to install packages
> like kde3.2, but upon booting OpenBSD
> again, it started to give the
> Bad magic error (my / is 200MB)
> I'm puzzled, it just stopped booting
> all of a sudden. Could someone give
> an advice here? As for now -- I'm
> starting my system through a CD.

You provide no details on how you "upgraded" -- I do know you didn't
do it by snapshot (or did it improperly by snapshot).  You haven't
provided many hard facts at all, I'm just going to assume you are
talking about i386...

However, the symptoms cause me to believe somehow, /boot got
deleted/removed/relocated/whatever.  It isn't where it was.  

Reinstall your boot blocks and /boot, as described in the FAQ (FAQ
14), the system will probably boot just fine.

It is possible you managed to create an 8G issue, if you really went
to -current, re-installing the boot blocks will fix that now, too (you
are still running the old PBR, which is normally installed if you
install a snapshot).  IF you ran into a BIOS issue, a boot block
reinstall will NOT fix it.  Again, no info provided (and no, just
telling me the size of your root partition isn't giving the info
needed).

Nick.
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