I spent another three hours on this and now I've come to a point where at least my kernel boots.
> Hi! > > In short: > I am trying to use installboot to make a new harddrive bootable that > should contain a custom OpenBSD installation, however, when trying to > boot from that new hd I always get "No O/S". > > > Detailed: > I successfully set up a standard OpenBSD6.3 (machine A) on sd0 using > install.iso. Using custom scripts, I would like to create custom > installations on sd1 to create individual installations (machine B, C > and so on), each on a separate HD that I would swap for sd1 each time. > > On (A) I did: > > fdisk -iy sd1 > echo "a a\n\n2g\n\na b\n\n\n\n\nw\nq\n"|disklabel -E sd1 > newfs /dev/rsd1a > > mount /dev/sd1a /mnt > > cp -R /altroot /mnt/altroot > cp -R /bin /mnt/bin > cp -R /dev /mnt/dev > cp -R /etc /mnt/etc > cp -R /home /mnt/home > cp -R /root /mnt/root > cp -R /sbin /mnt/sbin > cp -R /tmp /mnt/tmp > cp -R /usr /mnt/usr > cp -R /var /mnt/var > cp /bsd* /mnt/ > > cd /mnt/dev > ./MAKEDEV std > > installboot -v sd1 /usr/mdec/biosboot /usr/mdec/boot > > (also tried > installboot -v -r /mnt/ sd1 /usr/mdec/biosboot /usr/mdec/boot > without success) > > > Hints and help will be appreciated! > > Regards, > T. >
