Subject: Re: ERR_NOOS in stand/mbr/mbr.S
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/28/2006 10:01:10
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:06:03 -0400 (EDT), "Brian A. Seklecki"
> <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The catch here is that this what it looks like as a vnd(4). When I write
>> image it looks different on the destination media. vnd(4) also shows a
>> different virtual disk geoemtry than wd(4):
>>
>>
> I had similar problems trying to build a CF image for my Soekris, as
> opposed to doing an over-the-net installation. I eventually gave up. My
> tentative conclusion is that it was a geometry issue.
What we need is that nice OpenBSD fdisk(8) functionality that automaticlly
generates a proper MBR using that "reload" command.
I'm gonna try what Gray Watson did with the interactive fdisk(8) stuff.
What I really want to know is what am I doing differently than sysinst?!
>:}
1) dd(1) /dev/zero
2) fdisk -i
3) disklabel
4) installboot
...
~BAS
>
>
> --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
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