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

Hello Bogdan,

Thursday, May 29, 2003, 6:43:51 PM, you wrote:

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

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

BH>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
BH> /dev/hda1   *         1      1698  13639153+   7  HPFS/NTFS
BH> /dev/hda2          1699      1700     16065   83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda3          1701      2945  10000462+  a6  OpenBSD
BH> /dev/hda4          2946      4998  16490722+   5  Extended
BH> /dev/hda5          2946      2963    144553+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda6          2964      3087    995998+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda7          3088      3403   2538238+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda8          3404      3901   4000153+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda9          3902      4399   4000153+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda10         4400      4523    995998+  83  Linux
BH> /dev/hda11         4524      4647    995998+  82  Linux swap
BH> /dev/hda12         4648      4998   2819376    b  Win95 FAT32

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

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

BH> I will appreciate if you would help me.

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

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

BH> __________________________________________________

Try install OpenBSD on the 1st primary partition.

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I faced with similar situation, when install OpenBSD at the first time.

in my case:
1st partition: WindowsXP
2nd partition: OpenBSD

but i also got a 'Bad Magic' message...
after change WindowsXP <-> OpenBSD (1.OpenBSD, 2.WindowsXP) all works fine.

for details see INSTALL.i386,
section "Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation"
...

Third (but related to the second point above), if you are using a hard disk with more sectors than DOS or your controller's BIOS supports without some kind of software translation utility or other kludge, you MUST BE SURE that all partitions which you want to boot from must start and end below cylinder 1024 by the BIOS's idea of the disk, and that all DOS partitions MUST EXIST ENTIRELY BELOW cylinder 1024, or you will either not be able to boot OpenBSD, not be able to boot DOS, or you may experience data loss or filesystem corruption. Be sure you aren't using geometry translation that you don't know about, but that the DOS "fdisk" program does!
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Best regards,
 Dmitry                            mailto:sq@oganer.net