``panic: /boot too old: upgrade!'' message on a new installation of 3.3 on an i386

Hello!

I'm a newbie in the world of BSD, I'm using Linux for about 4 years.

A couple of days ago I downloaded from a mirror of ftp.openbsd.org the OpenBSD/3.3/i386/ directory. From the file floppy33.fs I created a boot floppy and I installed the OS. Everything went just fine, until I had to reboot my PC in order to start OpenBSD 3.3.

My boot manager is grub-0.93, and my screen looks like this:

grub> root (hd0,2,a)
  Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa6

grub> kernel /bsd
  [NetBSD-a.out, loadaddr=0x100000, text=0x3ee000, C, data=0x1e000, bss=0xc95a0, symtab=0x243cc, strtab=0x2dd9b, entry=0x100020]

grub> boot
panic: /boot too old: upgrade!
Stopped at 0xd02f42a0: leave
RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC!
DO NOT EVENT BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION!
ddb> trace
(null)(d06af9c,628000,62eff,8,d062af9c) at 0xd02f42a0 (null)(d02f9db1,d05bc110,d062afa4,d02fa2f1,d0628010) at 0xd01d8551
(null)(62f000) at 0xd02fa389
ddb> ps
  PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS WAIT COMMAND ddb>

I tried some alternative boot methods, including lilo, but I got the ``Bad magic'' message.

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I have to tell that my machine is a Pentium III (Katmai)/450MHz, 384MB RAM with a 40GB IDE HDD. On my hard disk lie 3 OSes: Windoze XP, Debian GNU/Linux and OpenBSD 3.3.

Linux fdisk output looks like this:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4998 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1   *         1      1698  13639153+   7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2          1699      1700     16065   83  Linux

/dev/hda3          1701      2945  10000462+  a6  OpenBSD

/dev/hda4          2946      4998  16490722+   5  Extended

/dev/hda5          2946      2963    144553+  83  Linux

/dev/hda6          2964      3087    995998+  83  Linux

/dev/hda7          3088      3403   2538238+  83  Linux

/dev/hda8          3404      3901   4000153+  83  Linux

/dev/hda9          3902      4399   4000153+  83  Linux

/dev/hda10         4400      4523    995998+  83  Linux

/dev/hda11         4524      4647    995998+  82  Linux swap


/dev/hda12         4648      4998   2819376    b  Win95 FAT32

So, I installed OpenBSD on the 3rd primary partition on my hard disk.

OpenBSD fdisk output looks like this:

Disk: wd0 geometry: 4998/255/63 [80292870 sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending            LBA Info:
 #: id     C  H  S -    C   H  S [      Start:     Size]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 07     0  1  1 - 1697 254 63 [         63: 27278307]

1. 83 1698 0 1 - 1699 254 63 [ 27278370: 32130] Linux Files*
2. A6 1700 0 1 - 2944 254 63 [ 27310500: 20000925] OpenBSD
3. 05 2945 0 1 - 4997 254 63 [ 47311425: 32981445] Extended DOS

disklabel output:

device: /dev/rwd0c
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: Maxtor 6E040L0
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 80293248
free sectors: 0
rpm: 3600

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 16 partitions:

 # size offset fstype

1. 306684 27310500 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
2. 1048320 27617184 swap
3. 80293248 0 unused 0 0
4. 1048320 28665504 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
5. 4194288 29713824 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
6. 8388576 33908112 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
7. 5014737 42296688 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
8. 27278307 63 unknown
9. 32130 27278370 ext2fs
10. 289107 47311488 ext2fs
11. 1991997 47600652 ext2fs
12. 5076477 49592718 ext2fs
13. 8000307 54669258 ext2fs
14. 8000307 62669628 ext2fs
15. 1991997 70669998 ext2fs

and mount points are:

wd0a /
wd0d /tmp
wd0e /var
wd0g /usr
wd0h /home

So why can't my system boot OpenBSD? The kernel file (bsd) is the one I downloaded from ftp. I double checked with md5sum all the files I downloaded and they are fine, I followed the installations steps, and I can say that my installation is quite ``standard''.

I will appreciate if you would help me.

Thank you,
Bogdan Hojda, bogdanhojda@yahoo.co.uk

P.S. Please excuse my English: I'm not a native English speaker.