Gustavo Rios wrote: > Dear friends, > > i am trying to get 3.7 installed on my Dell Precision Workstation 370. > What is getting me nervous is that depend on how i organize my > partition i can not boot it. > > I have installed it perfectly with the following configuration for my > partition: > > # /dev/rwd0c: > type: ESDI > disk: ESDI/IDE disk > label: Maxtor 6Y080M0 > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 16 > sectors/cylinder: 1008 > cylinders: 16383 > total sectors: 156250000 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # microseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 16 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 47577600 107864064 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 107008 > -154207
i.e., "LBA booting better work!" > b: 808336 155441664 swap # Cyl 154208 > -155009* > c: 156250000 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 > -155009* > i: 107864001 63 unknown # Cyl > 0*-107007 > > > And for slices: > Disk: wd0 geometry: 9726/255/63 [156248190 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 0: 07 0 1 1 - 6714 57 63 [ 63: 107864001 ] HPFS/QNX/AUX > *1: A6 6714 58 1 - 9726 28 46 [ 107864064: 48385936 ] OpenBSD > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > With the organization above it goes ok, but ... > > Keeping the same configuration for slices and sparing more partitions > for /home, /var, /tmp, /usr/X11R6, /usr/local i cannot boot with the > ERR R. You showed us the setup that works. Show us the setup that doesn't work... man biosboot is pretty clear about what causes the ERR R. (ok, maybe you wouldn't know to look there unless you read the stuff in faq14.html about booting). Not sure what your Dell Precision Workstation 370 is. My Precision Workstation 420 is old enough I don't think I'd quite trust booting OpenBSD (or any other OS) 50G into the disk (it was also intended for SCSI Disks, wouldn't surprise me if the BIOS was a bit behind the times for IDE). i.e., dmesg, dammit! :) > Did anybody faced such a situation? Realize the problem only happen > with a given configuration for partitions. well...yeah, if you do something wrong, sure. :) The ERR R means biosboot had trouble loading /boot, the BIOS returned an error. Something tells me if you get a boot> prompt from either a floppy or CD-ROM, you will get another error from boot when you try to: "boot hd0a:/bsd" If that works, you just had something go wrong with installboot, but I suspect it is more than that. Nick.
