On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 1:25 PM Sebastien Marie <sema...@online.fr> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:03:10AM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > > Should I try to pull the boot > > hard drive into another running system, and then manually try to copy > > over a clean /bsd.mp on the next snapshot? > > just to complete what otto@ already said. > > the problem isn't the kernel (bsd.mp), so copying it manually will not solve > the > problem. the problem is with the biosboot(8) file installed on the disk. > > to quote the man page of biosboot: > > This small program (roughly 512 bytes of code) is responsible for > loading > the second-stage boot(8) program (typically /boot), which in turn will > load the kernel. > > (see https://man.openbsd.org/biosboot.8 for complete explanation) > > > to install it manually, you need installboot(8) command + biosboot(8) file (by > default, it is using the one in /usr/mdec). > > unplugging the disk, put it in another machine, and next doing a upgrade will > run the right command, so it is the more simple approch. >
will do as you suggest. Thanks
