Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I understand what you mean with the discrepancy "between the start of the BSD partition and the OpenBSD block".
fdisk shows the A6 partition starting at 1828160. I chose to put the swap disklabel at 1828160 with a size of 409584 and a: at 2237744 (1828160+409584) with a size of 5761744. Are you saying the a: disklabel needs to be the first in the A6 partition (at 1828160)? If this is what you meant, I will it a shot........... .......I just gave it a shot. Problem solved! Thank you! Maybe it wasn't stated in the instructions (or maybe I glazed over it), but it appears that the a: disklabel needs to be the first one in the A6 partition. Cheers, Patrick > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:10:12PM -0700, Patrick Heim wrote: >> I tried sending this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list but got no response, so >> let me try misc. >> >> The install of the OS and core packages completes just fine. I am >> pretty >> sure that fdisk and disklabel configs are correct. Boot behaves very >> strangely in that it doesn't appear to see hd0a at all and can't find >> the >> kernel /bsd (or anyhting else...). >> >> When I boot to bsd.rd using the puffy icon under Linux and shell out, I >> can mount /dev/wd0a and I can see that everything installed just find >> and >> can verify that /bsd exists. >> >> Since I originally sent the message below, I have tried a complete clean >> install by deleting the old bsd partition on the disk and removing the >> OpenBSD IPK. I also used the latest snapshot as of today. The problem >> remains constant and annoying. >> >> I *really* would appreciate some insight into fixing this. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Patrick >> Subject: Re: OpenBSD Zaurus - Installed but fails to boot >> From: "Patrick Heim" <PatrickHeim at maldoror.cotse.net> >> Date: Sat, June 25, 2005 7:16 pm >> To: PatrickHeim at maldoror.cotse.net >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> I've re-read the documents and tried various tweaks in fdisk and >> disklabel >> and can't figure out how to get openbsd to boot. Below is the output >> from >> fdisk, dislabel, and the boot process. >> >> The only deviation from the normal network install is that I am pulling >> the packages from a BSD formatted compact flash disk (wd1c) rather than >> a >> network interface. >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> fdisk info: >> ----------- >> >> Disk: wd0 geometry: 1024/8/17 [7999488 Sectors] >> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 >> Starting Ending LBA Info: >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 0: 83 0 3 13 - 1511 7 17 [ 63: 205569 ] Linux >> files* >> 1: 83 1512 0 1 - 7559 7 17 [ 205632: 822528 ] Linux >> files* >> 2: 0C 7560 0 1 - 13442 2 14 [ 1028160: 800000 ] Win95 >> FAT32L >> *3: A6 12442 4 11 - 58820 3 10 [ 1828160: 6171391 ] OpenBSD >> fdisk: /using/mdec/mbr: No such file of directory >> fdisk: using builtin MBR >> >> disklabel info: >> --------------- >> >> device: /dev/rwd0c >> type: ST506 >> disk: ST506/MFM/RLL >> label: ST506 >> bytes/sector: 512 >> sectors/track: 17 >> tracks/cylinder: 8 >> sectors/cylinder: 136 >> cylinders: 1024 >> total sectors: 7999488 >> free sectors: 63 >> rpm: 3600 >> >> 16 partitions: >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] >> a: 5761744 2237744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1364 >> b: 409584 1828160 swap >> c: 7999488 0 unused 0 0 >> i: 205569 63 ext2fs >> j: 822528 205632 ext2fs >> k: 800000 1028160 MSDOS >> >> >> > > Sorry, been very busy lately and not been keeping up on things. > > It appears that you have some discrepancy between the start > of you BSD partition and the OpenBSD block on the MBR > >> *3: A6 12442 4 11 - 58820 3 10 [ 1828160: 6171391 ] OpenBSD >> a: 5761744 2237744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1364 > > Mine is slightly different: > --- > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > 3: A6 9065 7 2 - 58819 6 2 [ 1232960: 6766528 ] OpenBSD > --- > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 6635456 1232960 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1364 # Cyl 9065*- > 57855 > --- > > However, notice that the offset of the a parittion and the start of the > mbr > entry is the same value. > > Try repartitioning with disklabel so those values are the same, reinstall > and try again. > > Dale Rahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
