On 2015/09/29 21:52, Pedro Caetano wrote: > Hi, > > While installing openbsd on vmware using today's snapshot 29-sep-2015, I > get the following message on the final part of the install process, leaving > the system in an unusable state (not booting normally after installing from > bsd.rd). > > The hypervisor is running esx 5.1.0 > > Guest settings: > 128mb ram > 1gb hdd > SCSI controller is set to paravirtual > NIC is set to vmx3 > > installboot: invalid boot record signature (0x0000) @ sector 0 > > Failed to install bootblocks. > You will not be able to boot OpenBSD from sd0 > > Best regards, > Pedro Caetano
There's a problem with vmwpvs(4) where the first write gets lost. IIRC if you shell out from the installer and run fdisk -iy sd0 manually once, then resume installing, it then works.
