Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has

Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

Hi, I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has one... these laptops used to have the bios in a hdd partition and

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

form of booting, but i'm still searching for BSD stuff on that matter... I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? Well if grub was preconfigured it would make it much easier, but this helped: find /bsd root (hd0,3,a) kernel --type=openbsd /bsd boot Now it complains boot is too