Lars NoodC)n wrote:
> I suppose I can make very small partitions on wd1 and wd2 and put /bsd
> there.
It turns out that the vA07 BIOS in the Dell Optiplex GX270 was trying to
boot from wd2. I've found no way to point to wd0 automatically.
Manually selecting the device during cold booting works, but that
prevents unattended restarts.
So my work-around is to create a small bootable partition (#2 below) and
put a copy of /etc/boot.conf there pointing to wd0a:
boot /dev/wd0a:/bsd
For convenience, I put bsd.rd there as well, just in case it's needed.
Only about 5.4 MB of the 22.9 MB are needed for that, though.
I aim to try softraid with the other partition on wd2 and its
counterpart on wd1. wd0 is where the main system shall stay.
Disk: wd2 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
--------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: A6 0 1 1 - 2 254 63 [ 63: 48132 ] OpenBSD
3: A6 3 0 1 - 30400 254 63 [ 48195: 488343870 ] OpenBSD
