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Fresh install won't boot
- To: tech_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
- Subject: Fresh install won't boot
- From: Dave Sill <ds-openbsd_(_at_)_sws5_(_dot_)_ctd_(_dot_)_ornl_(_dot_)_gov>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, Tenn., USA
Newbie alert!
I just installed 2.5 on a 90 Mhz Pentium--not shared with any other
OS's, though the system previously has DOS and NT dual booting.
The boot disk is a 2 GB Fireball. The active partition, which is
sector 63 to the end of the disk, is devoted entirely to OpenBSD. I
gave it 1.5 GB for root, 100 MB swap, and the rest to /home. I
installed via FTP from the CD-ROM. The install went smoothly, but
after I halted and tried to boot, it hung at the following message,
right after the BIOS listed the disks:
Using drive: 0 Partition: 3
I booted from the floppy, made sure partition 3 was the active
partition, and ran installboot:
fsck /dev/wd0a
mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
/usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot wd0
But that didn't help.
Any advice would be appreciated.
-Dave
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