Hi all,
i'm attempting to diagnose if there was a problem with installing
OpenBSD to an external USB hard disk or not. The disk is a Western
Digital 2TB disk, should it matter. Needless to say, the install went
fine on to the disk; all the sets were unpacked, and I rebooted the
machine as per the instructions at the end. During install, I let the
installer auto partition the disk in question, and that ended up
creating a sensible layout that i could tell.
Yet, when i reboot the machine, and ask the BIOS to boot from the
external usb disk, eventually nothing happens, and my machine then
defaults to booting off my internal disk. What could be causing this?
i've had other operating systems on this external USB disk in the
past, so I know it's perfectly capable of being detected correctly by
the BIOS.
Since though I can't get at the disk in question, I am unsure what
information I can gather for you -- under Linux using "cfdisk", the
best information I can gather is the following:
Number Flags Part Type Filesystem Label Size
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pri/Ext Free space 0.00MB
4 Bootable Primary sun-ufs 2000396MB
And:
Partition info
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Possible partition device: /dev/sdb4
Partition type: Primary
Partition size in bytes: 2000396288512B
Partition size in sectors: 3907024001s
Portion of the hard disk: 100%
Filesystem type: sun-ufs
System type: 0xa6
System type name: OpenBSD
Position: 64s-3907024064s
Start (cyl,heads,sector): 0,1,1
End (cyl,heads,sector): 243200,254,62
Flags: boot
If there's a means of providing more information to help with this, please say.
TIA for any help.
Kindly,
Michael
