On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, frantisek holop wrote: > > >hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Nick Holland said that > >>frantisek holop wrote: > >>>hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that > >>>>(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk) > >>> > >>>how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk? > >>>chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk. > >>>only usb media. i need to create a bootable usb media... > >>> > >>>-f > >> > >>see the referenced thread... > >> > >>Prep the install device on another machine. Other machine just needs > > > >should have been clearer probably... > >i am on the road. there is no other machine... > >all i have is the eee and the internet and the usb media. > > > > > >my understanding of the boot process process for i386 tells me, > >all i need is ia bootsector from someone who already has an openbsd > >bootable usb media and the instructions which bytes to change > >based on what :) (where is boot(8) on my usb media) > > > > see man installboot and man biosboot: you can't do this easily because > installboot will patch biosboot for the locationinfo of boot. And you don't > have this information beforehand. > > >OR > > > >something like the zaurus process... install a linux package > >and can run bsd.rd directly from linux. i think this one is > >becoming more and more needed for i386 too, in this world of > >floppyless, cdromless devices... a little utility that > >can run bsd.rd from linux/dos... > > > >>but it would be cheaper to just prep it on another machine. :) > > > >i definitely agree. but if someone is so intimate with the > >boot sector code that can give me this info, saves a lot of > >hassle for me. thats why i wrote to the list, maybe someone > >really is... > > > > > >>(some people will say dd the floppy image onto the flash device, but > >>the functionality of that depends upon your BIOS's USB boot code. > > > >i havent tried this one yet, but just for the kicks i tried > >cd42.iso an that of course didnt work. > > dd floppy image does boot on the eee, but biosboot stops with "ERR M". > Installing OpenBSD to an USB stick definitly works. One other solution > might be > "flashboot", see "http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/";. There are > binary > images available at "http://tilde.se/flashboot/";. "zcat GENERIC-RD.image | > dd > of=/dev/sd0" under Linux on the eee should give you a bootable USB-Stick > (/dev/sd0 as an example). But I didn't try this myself. > > Anyway, OpenBSD will boot but ethernet does not work: The wired adapter is > not > suppoerted, and the wireless driver reports an error and does not work :-( >
Then one could create such a bootable image and throw in the file sets too, that is: most of the /4.2/i386 download directory except install42.iso, but the size would be about 250 MByte. If the ethernet adapters does not work, what is the use? > Regards > > Stefan Kell -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
