Big "a" slice may not be advised and not secure for production, but it always worked. (and on i386 it still works, even on amd64 with the i386 bootloader) So I agree that it is not good practice but to quick test machines I've did it many times. (and never found in the FAQ nor in the manpages that it should not work)
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 21:15 Mike Larkin <mlar...@azathoth.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 07:02:20PM +0000, mabi wrote: > > Indeed, I just created one huge "a" slice with 500 GB for my / root > partition. I will try first to create a smaller/many slices... > > > > This has occurred three times just this week. I'm curious why you did this; > is there a new FAQ or someone out there telling people to create gigantisch > root partitions? > > -ml > > > @Kristjan: "entry point at ..." no it didn't even get to this line, it > just rebooted at the line counting all these numbers, I think that it the > very first line of the boot pricess if I am not mistaken. > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:57 PM, diego righi < > diego.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > did you make only one big a slice? > > > try to put the i386 bootloader ;) > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 18:20 mabi m...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I just installed OpenBSD 6.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge R410 server. > The > > > > installation went fine but upon reboot I get to the "boot>" prompt > then the > > > > first line of the OpenBSD boot starts with all the numbers > displaying but > > > > like 2 seconds later the whole server reboots. Any idea what that > could be? > > > > This server is from around 2011 and has two Intel E5620 CPUs. I > already > > > > tried disabling hyperthreading, booting single user mode (boot -s), > booting > > > > the boot.sp image but so far no luck... > > > > Regards, > > > > Mabi > > > > > >
