On Jan 31, 2008 8:29 AM, Andre Naehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Richard Daemon wrote: > > > Did you have to do boot> boot -a to get it to boot properly off of sd0a, > > recompile kernel or something else? > > > > When I try, I never get it to see "root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on > sd0b" > > by itself, at least without boot -a or a kernel recompile... > > > > By chance, have you tried the same with non -current - just wondering if > it > > boots and detects ok with root on sd0a? > > > > Okay, this is what I did. Got the snapshot from ftp2.de.openbsd.org and > booted a pc with the iso image mounted. I used the complete stick for > OpenBSD, creating 827mb for / and 128m for swap (a & b). > Installed the whole set (except game*) on my 1gb usb stick (which was sd1 > during install) and rebooted > the pc. After that I mounted the stick and edited fstab and changed sd1a > to sd0a. > > Took the stick, told the eee to boot from usb and the snapshot was up > and running. Tried to access web and ssh via the integrated lii0 > ethernet, it worked. Starting up X, using startx with no config file, it > came up and runs. Nice. > > So, there was no need to recompile the kernel in the snapshot from the > ftp mentioned above. > > If you are interested, I can take an original 4.2 and install it on the > stick tomorrow and can than post the dmesg. > > -- > > andre >
If you can, so long as it's not trouble for you that would be great! For me, it's on two standard PCs (i386 & AMD64 x2) that I've been having these weird issues with booting from USB after installing to sd0a, where it goes into ddb> unless I do the boot -a (or recompile kernel accordingly) and only then it sees the proper "root on sd0a", rather than trying "root wd0a". I didn't do a swap, but from the man pages should just exit with a >= 1 code and I wouldn't think that would be the cause. If you do test with standard release, please let me know the results, especially if it's on a standard PC - I'm out of systems to test with... :-( Thank you very much!
