On 12/12/11 17:29, Nick Holland wrote:
On 12/12/11 16:11, Jeff Ross wrote:
On 12/12/11 13:18, Diana Eichert wrote:
what is the output of fdisk when booted from bsd.rd?
Hi Diana!
Thanks for the thought.
Disk: sd0 geometry: 487/255/63 [7827456 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
*3: A6 0 1 2 - 486 254 63 [ 64: 7823591 ] OpenBSD
Looks okay to me.
Jeff
yeah, that looks fine...
How about your disklabel output?
I can think of a few things you could do wrong to do that...
ERR M indicates that biosboot got installed, but what it was told was
the location of /boot is...uh...not. How that's happening...not sure.
But, we know the MBR is good, the PBR is good, but what the PBR is
pointing at is not.
Next step would be to try 5.0-rel to make sure it is not a recent
regression. The good thing about how OpenBSD handles flash disks is if
something is broke for flash disks, it is typically going to break
everywhere (I hope).
Nick.
5.0 release on the same Imation Nano Pro also throws ERR M. I used the
identical disk layout for the install.
To eliminate the chance that there was something wrong with that
specific Imation flash drive, I got a SanDisk Cruzer and installed 5.0
release on it, also using the identical layout. Same problem.
So, I tried booting this computer off the SanDisk and bam! Booted right
off--no problem at all. Same with the Imation Nano.
Whatever the problem might be is specific to that Gateway trying to boot
off of a flash drive. I did a 5.0 rel install to wd0 and no problems
booting from the hard drive.
Jeff
