Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 08 23:56:56, jean-francois wrote: Actually installing on sd0 the last 4.5 resulted in sd1 and sd2 boot sectors to be modified and not able to boot their own system anymore, On Jul 09 08:40:55, jean-francois wrote: I installed the very standard procedure 'all disc' on 'sd1' Which

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
I installed the very standard procedure 'all disc' on 'sd1' then when with the bios I start on the sd1, windows says 'no os' and on sd2 the grub has disapeared too (I used to have sd0 free, sd1 win, sd2 linux). Therefore I don'nt understand why installing openbsd on sd0 has changed anything on

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Eric Furman
: Re: Install difficulties I installed the very standard procedure 'all disc' on 'sd1' then when with the bios I start on the sd1, windows says 'no os' and on sd2 the grub has disapeared too (I used to have sd0 free, sd1 win, sd2 linux). Therefore I don'nt understand why installing openbsd on sd0

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Richard Toohey
On 9/07/2009, at 7:41 PM, Eric Furman wrote: This is the best advice you will get. Don't try duel booting until you know what you are doing. And I'm not trying to be a smartass. duel[sic] booting - someone will end up getting shot! 8-)

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Jean-François SIMON
Sorry, I mean, I installed on SD0 using all disk space. I am not sure the MBR has been modified, I have to look further what was modified, however the other disks do not boot anymore. Windows (sd1) starts and crashes during the load. Ubuntu (sd2) says no os ? I hope that other disks were not

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
Something has been changed which prevent sd1 and sd2 to start however no data loss. I don't understand, I have launched install on sd0 ? Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 C 11:29 +0200, Jean-FranC'ois SIMON a C)crit : Sorry, I mean, I installed on SD0 using all disk space. I am not sure the MBR has

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Nido
2009/7/9, jean-francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Something has been changed which prevent sd1 and sd2 to start however no data loss. I don't understand, I have launched install on sd0 ? I suspect you had the bootloader on sd0 originally. I suggest you install a new one and configure it

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
Therefore I don'nt understand why installing openbsd on sd0 has changed anything on the MBR of other disks ? The installer does not touch the other disks.

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Anathae Townsend
-Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Anathae Townsend Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:02 PM To: jfsimon1...@gmail.com; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Install difficulties read the install documentation. since you don't seem

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Jean-François SIMON
] On Behalf Of jean-francois Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:56 AM To: Theo de Raadt; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Install difficulties I remember that I used to start install procedure on each disk answering yes to 'all disk should be used for this install', then I just checked the size

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Jean-François SIMON
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:56 AM To: Theo de Raadt; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Install difficulties I remember that I used to start install procedure on each disk answering yes to 'all disk should be used for this install', then I just checked the size of the disk

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Jean-François SIMON
I finally saw that in the very first steps of the install procedure, the type of partition ID of assigned install disk is set to A6 overwriting from the original value (in my case for NTFS this is 0x86 I assume) preventing to boot what was the original system on that disk. Changing to the original

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Pfaff
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:02:37 +0200 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: OpenbBSD crashes at the first boot. Could one help with how to get the crash infos out of the console (ps trace) ; is the only way to copy on paper then write in an email or is there a way to copy this one way

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-08 Thread neal hogan
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:56:56PM +0200, jean-francois wrote: Hi all, Actually installing on sd0 the last 4.5 resulted in sd1 and sd2 boot sectors to be modified and not able to boot their own system anymore, while I only wanted to install openbsd and its boot on sd0. Is this normal ?