On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Stevoid wrote:
I've burnt the various *.iso files to CD but my laptop doesn't
recognise
them as bootable but I know whet work. I've begun the installation
process
on several machines using these disks and they work.
Are you 100% certain you burned the iso as an image, and not as a file?
I then, took the HDD out of my laptop, installed it into a desktop
PC and
installed OpenBSD 4.3 on the drive. Before I took the laptop's HHD
out of
the desktop, I even booted from it to make sure the installation
went okay.
It did but when I stick the HDD back in the laptop, It just won't
boot.
It's hard to help if I don't know what the error is. What is the error?
No booting from perfectly good CD? No booting from perfectly good
installation to HDD?
Different BIOS may have different requirements, read the
installboot(8) and biosboot(8) man pages for your architecture.
Does anyone know why this might be happening? I've been installing
OpenBSD
since 2.8 and NEVER seen this.
It seems odd, but without better listing of what the hardware is (or
is not) doing, no one is going to be much help at all.
In 2001/2002 I had a Toshiba Satellite, to get it to boot anything
other than Windows I recall having to install Grub to get the system
to boot. Toshiba has never been particularly friendly to Open Source
OS users.
