hi try an different start point of the cyls in fdisk, 1 (or 10 instead of 0).
i fixed that problem also with an different boot loader, GAG in my case, after the ERR-boot-phenomen. cheers horst On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:42:03 +0100 pizeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i'm not english but i hope you'll understand > > the problem is: ERR M when booting, but let's start from beginning > > I have a pii 350MHz, 4Gb hard disk and i want to install openbsd 3.8, so i > created a boot cd, followed the instruction and everthing was fine with this > settings: > entire disk for openbsd > wd0a 100M / > wd0b 150M swap > wd0d 200M /tmp > wd0e 300M /var > wd0f 2G /usr > wd0g remaining /home > installation from ftp with > bsd > bsd.rd > base38.tgz > etc38.tgz > comp38.tgz > man38.tgz > misc38.tgz > i selected no x server > > Once finished the installation "he" suggested me to type halt and reboot from > hd: > > Using drive 0, partition3; > Loading... > ERR M > > i read a topic like this so i tried: > > # mount /dev/wd0a /mnt > # mount /dev/wd0f /mnt/usr > (this isn't really necessary because when i mount wd0a i see /usr mounted too, > maybe just because they are on the same partition with different labels) > # rm -rf /mnt/boot > # cp /mnt/usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot > # /mnt/usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /mnt/usr/mdec/biosboot wd0 > > the output was: > > boot: /mnt/boot > proto: /usr/mdec/biosboot > device: /dev/rwd0c > /usr/mdec/biosboot: entry point 0 > proto bootblock size 512 > /mnt/boot is 3 blocks x 12384 bytes > fs block shift 2; part offset 63; inode block 24; offset 1576 > using MBR partition 3: type 166 (0xa6) offset 63 (0x3f) > > > booting and holding shift: > !Using drive 0, partition 3; > !Loading;... > ERR M > > > if i type > boot> boot hd0a:/bsd > booting hd0a:/bsd: \ > and nothing appens > > boot> machine diskinfo > Disk BIOS# Type Cyls Heads Secs Flags Checksum > fd0 0x0 *none* 80 2 18 0x4 0x0 > hd0 0x00 label 524 255 63 0x2 > 0xcada9542 > cd0 0x9f label 0 0 0 0xa 0x0 > > > don't know what to do > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
