2010/3/16 Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> > I have the apparently common problem of CD2 (amd64) from the OpenBSD distro > not booting on an IBM x336. And of course there's no floppy and the box > won't > boot off a USB device at all. > > One of the avenues I'm considering is booting off the i386 CD1 and then > using the CD2 disc for the install data. Will that work, or will the > i386 install still load up some inappropriate i386 items (eg the boot > sector)? > > Has anyone done this? > -- > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > If you can't make it out of coathanger wire, you just aren't thinking. > - John Whitmore > > Hi,
it's not the same thing and it's not very simple to set up but maybe you can try to boot from lan? Look at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE Best regards -- Matteo Filippetto