Re: 2.4 install problem

[WHS <wouters_(_at_)_cistron_(_dot_)_nl>]

Kjell Wooding wrote:

> Is it by chance a Compaq?

No. Self built. Mboard = epox PP6NF (award bios, version is 4.51g I
think)

> I have had much difficulty getting Compaq's to boot any non-microsoft partitions.
> (Hang in LILO, or hang after "booting from partition 3"). I don't think it does the
> handoff to the MBR properly.

No problems with anything (including obsd 2.2 booted via lilo) when I
used a 2.5G seagate HD (which had 621c/128h/63s bios, from 4970c/16 h/63
s drive)


Michael Shalayeff wrote:

> > So I guess lilo is right and the boot block info is written in the wrong
> > place somewhere...
> hmm, but according to the info you provided they are written to the right
> location. while i'll verify your fdisk and disklabel ouputs ones more,
> can you send me a dump of your MBR (dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/tmp/mbr bs=512 count=1)
> (maybe weingart_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org would like a copy too ;)
> 10x

done.

I also did this (from linux):
dd if=/dev/hda4 of=hda4.txt bs=8k count=1

to see if the PBR of the obsd partition is ok, but it gives all 0's for
the first 512 b, then:

0200  57 45 56 82 05 00 00 00   WEV.....
0208  45 53 44 49 2F 49 44 45   ESDI/IDE
0210  20 64 69 73 6B 00 00 00    disk...
0218  51 55 41 4E 54 55 4D 20   QUANTUM 
0220  46 49 52 45 42 41 4C 4C   FIREBALL
0228  00 02 00 00 3F 00 00 00   ....?...
0230  0F 00 00 00 23 3E 00 00   ....#>..
0238  B1 03 00 00 33 5F E5 00   ....3_..
0240  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0248  10 0E 01 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0250  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0258  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0260  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0268  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0270  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0278  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0280  00 00 00 00 57 45 56 82   ....WEV.
0288  44 82 10 00 00 20 00 00   D.... ..
0290  00 00 01 00 73 41 4B 00   ....sAK.
0298  A3 C6 95 00 00 04 00 00   ........
02A0  07 08 10 00 10 EC 03 00   ........

etc.

The first 512 b should be biosboot (with a few changes for the file
positions and minus the first 32 bytes and the rest at the end) right?

Regards,

Wouter
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