It looks to me that you're trying to find a way to quickly set up new machines which share a similar OpenBSD configuration? Can I suggest an alternative approach to help achieve this...
Read through: man autoinstall. You can use this approach to set up machines quickly across a LAN. To get it going you'll also need to refer to man pxeboot (using pxe shouldn't be a problem as looks like you're on amd64). You'll have to get dhcpd, tftpd and (optionally) httpd going too. Also be aware of how to customise the install for your needs with a custom install set: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#site I've found autoinstall an excellent approach to setting up new machines. It does take a bit of setup, but once done it's easy to maintain and get ready when new OpenBSD releases are made. I download all the install files and packages for each release, which are served locally by httpd, so it's nice and quick to install and upgrade. For new installs I have a small VLAN on my switch, connected to the "install" interface on my file server, which I then just plug a new machine into, boot via pxe, and then leave it alone to do the autoinstall. In a few mins OpenBSD is installed and ready to run on it. Very nice! Cheers Chris On 9 April 2018 at 23:54, Torsten <tmp...@4ss.de> wrote: > 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. > > > >
