On 2010-02-15, T. Valent <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble using installboot. Here some facts that are the way
> they are (Test environment on which I simulate things), no need to
> discuss them:
>
> OpenBSD4.3 (probably the same issue with any other version anyway)
Probably the same, but it's easy to test a newer OS. installboot
(sys/arch/{i386,amd64}/stand/installboot) *has* changed since 4.3.
> - next I shutdown the machine and add an additional HD with the exact
> same geometry the 1rst HD has. Then I boot the machine again, fdisk and
> disklabel it the absolut exact same way I did with the first disk.
"the exact same way" - it would help to show how. The right way to
fdisk would be something like 'fdisk -iy <device>'.
The error you are seeing from installboot occurs when the correct
MBR signature can't be detected.
