Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Eric Ziegast: > I've tried a few times to get OpenBSD (3.8 beta from mid-late August) > installed on a Proliant DL 380 G1 with a SmartArray 5i controller. The good > news is that the installation CD found the RAID1 array and used it as > /dev/sd0 to install the OS. > > The part I'm having trouble with is getting the box to boot from the > installed disk. When it boots, it claims no operating system is found. I > can boot afterwards with a floppy or CD just fine and then mount /dev/sd0a > and chroot into my OpenBSD root partition. > > Things I tried: > I always tell the installer to use the whole disk. > I can see the "A6" label created in MBR partition 3. > I see the machine blink the drive lights when it claims to be writing an > MBR. > I have even run "fdisk -e sd0" with "flag" to make sure the OpenBSD > partition is a bootable partition. > I have even tried swapping the penBSD partition to partition 0 instead of 3. > I followed details frmm FAQ 14.8 to redo the "./installboot" of > [/mnt]/usr/mdec/biosboot.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c count=100 and retry the install. otherwise we'd need to look at the fdisk table and disklabel... cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)