On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Tobias Weingartner <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thursday, July 29, Fabrice Dubois wrote:
> >
> > Here I've copied by hand on another pc, what I am seeing on a new
> install,
> > booting from a new 4.7 amd64.
>
> > and 4.6 before on there SAS HDs, just blocked completely now...). Don't
> know
> > why there are now problems when I try to install on one of the two SAS
> HDs I
> > have (sd0 and sd1). On a Sata HD, from WD, I had no problems. Fdisk works
> > without any problems. I am sending also below the dmesg of that
> installation
> > on the wd0 (the western digital sata hd, where fdisk works). But here, no
> > way to send any dmesg, I am blocked or stucked on the fdisk part...
>
> Are both hard disks given the "BIOS supported" option in the raid card?
>

I think they are. At least no problem with other OS.


> Type 'machine disk' at the "boot> " prompt, do they both show up?
>

Yes, thanks, new command, didn't knew it :-) (here typing on another pc)

Disk     BIOS#     Type     Cyls     Heads     Secs     Flags     Checksum
fd0       0x0         *none*   80        2            18         0x4
0x0
hd0      0x80       label      1024    255         63         0x2
0xf4f4d40f
hd1      0x81       label      1024    40           63         0x2
0xa1dda2fa
hd2      0x82       label      1024    40           63         0x2
0xcc13a438
hd3      0x83       label      1024    255         63         0x0
0x7dfce509
hd4      0x84       label      1024    255         63         0x0
0xd19c24bc
cd0      0xef        label      0         0             0
0xa        0x0

I finally found a solution to that being "stuck" by directly ignoring the
CHS and putting there 63 and the total sectors (163862937) of the primary
partition. Then, rebooting, another problem but with booting (and I think
I'll be now totally OT). So, booting newly with the CD, and redoing the
fdisk, the results were then totally normal, not bogus as the first time.

So, after installing ignoring the CHS because the values of fdisk were
totally bogus, and booting with CD (because couldn't boot on the newly
install though grub2), on the second boot though cd, on the fdisk the
parameters were normal again, not bogus.

The other problem I'm facing now is with booting, and I'm sure OT, but as I
am on this, well, hope not spaming "too much"... :-)))

Booting with the Western Digital Sata for 4.7 i386 stable works:

set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader +1
boot

But not for the 4.7 amd64 on the second SAS:

set root=(hd4,1)
chainloader +1
boot

It says:

NTLDR is missing

An "enter" here and 2 other sentences:

Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

I tell this because on the past (before 4.7), it worked without problems.
But, it is surely not an OpenBSD problem. What I've done after bypassing the
CHS from fdisk, even if now it showed correct values, was the "update"
command from:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Install (*WE AREN'T DONE YET!*)

My sincere apologies if I'm spaming here with these informations...


> -Toby.
>

Thank you.

Fabrice

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