Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument) Hello, Stuart. Thanks for sending me a copy of your reply. I don't know if anyone else has added anything to this thread because I subscribe in digest mode. So here is all the info you told me

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 09 June 2005 00:42 -0300, Luciano ES wrote: First off, the boot error message: Loading... probing: pc0 com0 com1 apm mem [508K 254M a20=on] disk: fd0 hd0+* hd1+* hd2* OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.06 open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Invalid argument boot booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-09 Thread Luciano ES
Hello, Stuart. The answers to your latest questions: On 09/06/05 at 12:11, Stuart Henderson wrote in 7K: How does 'fdisk wd0' look? - The second slice (offset 63) was marked as unknown. Then I fixed it with OpenBSD's fdisk. Now it is marked as OpenBSD. The problem is that I have done that many

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-09 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, June 9, Luciano ES wrote: Hello, Stuart. The answers to your latest questions: On 09/06/05 at 12:11, Stuart Henderson wrote in 7K: How does 'fdisk wd0' look? - The second slice (offset 63) was marked as unknown. Then I fixed it with OpenBSD's fdisk. Now it is marked as

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-09 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 6/9/05, Luciano ES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Stuart. The answers to your latest questions: On 09/06/05 at 12:11, Stuart Henderson wrote in 7K: How does 'fdisk wd0' look? - The second slice (offset 63) was marked as unknown. Then I fixed it with OpenBSD's fdisk. Now it is marked

Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Luciano ES
Hi to all. I have been interested in BSD for about a year and have tried all of the three most popular free ones. I would like to start by saying something good: OpenBSD was a very pleasant surprise to me. After trying FreeBSD and NetBSD, I left OpenBSD to the end of the queue because of so many

Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Luciano ES
I am sorry, I forgot to say that my motherboard is an Asus A7N 266 VM. I am sure that someone will want to know. -- Luciano Espirito Santo Santos, SP - Brasil

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 08 June 2005 21:22 -0300, Luciano ES wrote: Now, the bad thing. Contrasting with the very good experience I had in my tests, I have already installed it three times because of a problem that beats the heck out of me. You certainly have heard about it before: disk: fd0 hd0+ OpenBSD/i386