On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:23:54AM -0700, sweetnsourbkr wrote:
> I'm trying into install OpenBSD 4.0 onto my laptop. It's a Pentium 3 1.13
> MHz with 768MB RAM.
>
> I burned an install CD following the installation instructions. I buned the
> cd40.iso first, started a multisession CD. Then afterwards, burned the rest
> of the packages and finished the multisession CD. This setup boots fine on
> my desktop system.
Oh no, that's wrong.
The boot records should be in the *last* session, not the first.
(at least according to the el-torito standard, and this is how it
works on all newer machines;
some older machines will just at the 17th sector on the CD and not
care about other sessions, but your laptop is obviously not one of them).
If you try to make a bootable multisession disk, use
mkisofs ... -b path/to/cdrom40.fs ...
for both the first and the last session you're creating, and don't
forget to close the last session.
