Henrique Lengler <henriquel...@openmailbox.org> writes: > I decided to install openbsd by the first time a month ago, How I > was with no internet connection I needed to shutdown the computer in > the part that I need to download the packages, because I hadn't it > on the cd. I could not acess the command line so I clicked the reset > button on the front panel. When I tried to turn on again, the system > didn't boot. I discovered that it only worked if I remove the hard > drive. Thinking that the problem was the harddrive I sent it to > warranty to be repleaced. I took 10 long days (withou my computer) > to arrive a new one. When it arrived, I tested and I saw that now > it is working. I prepared a cable connection, and I started again > the openbsd setup. It sucefully downloaded and installed > everything, so I rebooted the system to boot my new fresh install. > AND SHIT, everything happened as before, the system don't boot as > before, I can't open the bios as before, and I got really mad.
Did you in fact complete the install at all, or did you just partition the disk and press reset before installing any sets? While you're on an internet connected computer, please look up the installation parts of the FAQ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html and see if you can't find the part where things started going wrong. I strongly suspect that you did not in fact complete the install. That said, since you're revealing next to no information about the system you are trying to install on, I'll offer this by way of historical anecdotes from times better forgotten: I've seen systems that were Windows-specific to the point that large chunks of the system setup software including a point'n'click interface to BIOS were stored in a special partition on the system's hard disk. Destroying that partition (such as choosing to use the whole disk for OpenBSD while running the OpenBSD installer) could lead to odd behavior on some machines, while on others you would be stuck with whatever settings the system had before you wiped the magic partition. The latter included some late-noughties cheapo-thinkpads such as my now retired SL500 (http://bsdly.blogspot.no/2010/01/goodness-of-men-and-machinery.html, which also offers a rough idea of how an OpenBSD install proceeds). Pressing the big blue button on that laptop after installing OpenBSD lead to exactly zero results, but the machine ran OpenBSD fine as its only operating system and so I did not waste too much energy on what the blue button might have given me. It's possible (but not very likely) you are the victim of something like this, but I strongly suspect that you simply pressed the reset button after partitioning the disk but before installing an operating system. Pressing the reset button insistently at the wrong moment can even leave you with a hard disk without valid partitioning, which means that the system is in a state that does not let it boot easily. But once again, your best option right now is to look up the install part of the FAQ, get hold of a valid install medium that include the install sets (both CD images and USB thumbdrive images are available) and go from there. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
