>> OK, I got it booting. In a fairly useless config, but ...
>> Booting from a -current amd64 cd55.iso cd-rom, I (E)dited the MBR so
>> that the OpenBSD 'A6' partition started on sector 2048, and was 500MB
>> in size.
>> I accepted the auto configured disklabel (i.e. all space in 'a') and
>> inst
>>> Indeed. Experiments here show that plugging in a pci <-> sata card to
>>> avoid the Intel SATA chip makes the disk work fine.
>>>
>>> Disks smaller than 1TB also work. So I'm guessing it's something
>>> magical about 4K-sector disks presenting themselves as 512-byte sector
>>> disks that is the
On 4 May 2014 14:47, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> On 05/03/14 20:22, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
>>
>> On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>
>
> On 05/03/14 14:10, Kennet
On 05/03/14 20:22, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
So marking a p
On 3 May 2014 10:13, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
>>
>> On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
>>
>>
>> So marking a partiti
On 05/03/14 15:01, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change)
causes your system to hang. Apparently Linu
On 3 May 2014 08:49, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
>>
>> On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change)
causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you
'La
On 05/03/14 14:10, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change)
causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you
'Label' it. The OpenBSD installer does it for you when you
select 'Whole
On 3 May 2014 06:27, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
>> So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change)
>> causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you
>> 'Label' it. The OpenBSD installer does it for you when you
>> select 'Whole disk'. Nothing obviously to do with
> So marking a partition as 'Active/Bootable', (the 00 -> 80 change)
> causes your system to hang. Apparently Linux does this when you
> 'Label' it. The OpenBSD installer does it for you when you
> select 'Whole disk'. Nothing obviously to do with the disklabel. You
> could test this by manually
>
On 1 May 2014 14:59, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
>> Can you provide a hex dump of the MBR Linux produces? The evidence would
>> seem to point at the boot code stored in the MBR. To which I made a
>> recent minor tweak. So you might also try a 5.4 install to see if it
>> works.
>
> Below are the hexdu
> Did you guys see my mail yesterday ? (albeit responding to the "Problem
> booting OpenBSD-current AMD64" thread)
Yes I did. Sorry for the late response.
> First of all I'd expect OpenBSD to create its fdisk partition on the
> partition with id 3, starting at LBA offset 64. (don't know if this
> Your MBR OpenBSD partition is not flagged as active.
Yes I know, but that doesn't matter for this problem..
Kind regards,
Martijn Rijkeboer
> Can you provide a hex dump of the MBR Linux produces? The evidence would
> seem to point at the boot code stored in the MBR. To which I made a
> recent minor tweak. So you might also try a 5.4 install to see if it
> works.
Below are the hexdumps of the MBR. The "before" was created with Linux an
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:06:49AM +0200 or thereabouts, Remco wrote:
> >> fdisk before
> >>
> >>
> >> Disk: /dev/rsd0cgeometry: 121601/255/63 [1953523055 Sectors]
> >> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
> >> Starting Ending LBA Info:
> >> #: id
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
Hello,
I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I
partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary
partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel
on the partition (disklabel -E sd0) I can't
>> fdisk before
>>
>>
>> Disk: /dev/rsd0cgeometry: 121601/255/63 [1953523055 Sectors]
>> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
>> Starting Ending LBA Info:
>> #: id C H S - C H S [ start:size ]
>>
> --
On 30 Apr 2014 03:28, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I
> partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary
> partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel
> on the partition (disklabel -
On 30 Apr 2014 15:57, "Kenneth Westerback" wrote:
>
>
> On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote:
> >
> > > Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel
> > > plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the
> > > (failing) reboot.
> >
> > Belo
On 30 Apr 2014 15:39, "Martijn Rijkeboer" wrote:
>
> > Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel
> > plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the
> > (failing) reboot.
>
> Below you will find the dmesg and output from fdisk and disklabel before
> Please post at least a dmesg with the disk attached but no disklabel
> plus fdisk and disklabel output after setting the label but before the
> (failing) reboot.
Below you will find the dmesg and output from fdisk and disklabel before
and after labeling. I used Linux to partition the harddisk, b
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:36:53AM -0600, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I
> partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary
> partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel
> on the parti
Hello,
I've got a weird disklabel related problem (or so it seems). When I
partition my harddisk with fdisk and add an OpenBSD (A6) primary
partition the system can still boot, but once I place a disklabel
on the partition (disklabel -E sd0) I can't boot the system anymore
(it freezes during the p
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