Thanks a lot for taking so much time to answer my mail, especially so fast and
in such details.
You are tarnishing the OpenBSD reputation in a nice way :) wink :)
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De: "Nick Holland" <n...@holland-consulting.net>
C: artligh...@free.fr
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
EnvoyC): Jeudi 13 AoC;t 2009 04h30:05 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne /
Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Re: Recovering from ERR M at boot on a collocated server with a home
made "rescue" partition available.
Great details, but I'm snipping them for length.
btw: you forgot the part about how horrible we are for letting this happen
to you, so I can't ignore your polite plea for help. dang. :)
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Yeah !! I was too tired to be my usual vindicative disgruntled "computer-guy-
in-the-role-of-the-user-that-replays-what-he-hears-from-its-own-users-everyda
y".
No energy to be of utter bad faith :(
sorry I won't let it happen again, we, computer users, have a profile to keep
I fully understand that :)
/bow :)
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[....]
boy, the more tired I get the more good ideas I have...if you can
do this, it wins the prize for simplicity and ease: switch the
partitions back around for your production config, have them
make an OpenBSD boot floppy or CD, have them start to boot from it,
when they get to the boot> prompt, have them enter:
boot hd0a:/bsd
If the only problem is your boot code, you just got around it by
loading boot code off CD or floppy. You can now run installboot
from the running system.
[....]
Key thing, though: if you have to do anything fancy, practice
locally first.
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I will take the time to read again and again your post and ponder my
options before doing anything fancy, and try to practice locally,
as you suggest.
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Good luck...
Nick.
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Thanks I'll need it, even if luck should have nothing to do with it, I
have a feeling it will :)
Thanks again. :)
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