Sorry, I don't get it. Is it about insulting and discrediting or being patronizing?
"bah" "too lazy" What's the problem? I am not a system administrator. If this mailing list is intended to be only for such, you should specify it. Even if it was. Neither the subject of the email, nor the content of the e-mail was in the style of "HELP MY LAPPY DOESNT WORK THANKS HELP NEEDED" I tried to be informative and accurate, at least as much as I could. I followed the specifications in http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html about Netiquette This is btw not the first time this happens in this mailing list. I would have sufficed with these two paragraphs here > Boot your CD or floppy, at the boot> prompt, enter "boot hd0a:/bsd", > that will probably work (depends on how hosed your 'a' partition is). > If it does, copy over a new copy of /boot and reinstall the boot > loader (faq14). > > I don't see anything that changed in /boot since 4.5, so I don't think > you have a version issue, something went wrong in the install of /boot > on your 4.6-cur install. In any case, thanks for _these_ two paragraphs. Pau 2009/8/16 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>: > Pau wrote: > ... >> The installation went fine. >> >> Then I rebooted and: >> >> www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/openbsd46.jpg (I couldn't get a better picture) > > bah. you were too lazy to type five very short lines of text? > > To save anyone else from clicking on the picture: it stops while > loading /boot. > >> ... it freezes. It stays like that and nothing else happens >> >> It must be acpi, > > no. > >> but I cannot set it off, because I am not prompted with boot> > > Not only has the kernel not loaded yet, the boot loader > hasn't loaded yet. ACPI doesn't enter the picture until the > kernel is loaded. > >> And I cannot switch it off in the bios. >> >> I say it must be ACPI because when I press the key that it's supposed >> to suspend the laptop, it switches off the screen. When I press the >> power key, it "resumes" to the screen you can see in the picture. > > Your logic escapes me here. Before the OS has loaded, when the BIOS > is in complete control still. the suspend key suspends the system. > All is as it should be. > > > /boot failed to load. Why? I don't know. Bad disk? funny > disk layout? bad RAM/system? Corrupted file system? > > Boot your CD or floppy, at the boot> prompt, enter "boot hd0a:/bsd", > that will probably work (depends on how hosed your 'a' partition is). > If it does, copy over a new copy of /boot and reinstall the boot > loader (faq14). > > I don't see anything that changed in /boot since 4.5, so I don't think > you have a version issue, something went wrong in the install of /boot > on your 4.6-cur install. > > This isn't to say that you DON'T also have an acpi issue, but you > have to get the kernel loaded before we worry about that. > > Nick.
