Re: Alternative boot method for i386 (Newbie question)

Unni Krishnan wrote:
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> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 22:58, Nick Holland wrote:

During the install process, it will ask which disk the / partition will be on. Answer correctly, you will be in business. After boot, you can change this in /etc/fstab (for example, if you were to move the primary drive to the secondary drive or vice versa).

/usr/src # more /etc/fstab
/dev/sd1a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/sd1d /usr ffs rw,nodev,softdep 1 2

This machine has SCSI drives and a SCSI controller that will let me boot from the second drive (which is how it is set). If you don't have that (or don't wish to wait through the boot process to hit 'CTRL-A' at the magic moment -- on this machine, it is about a 5 second window on a minute+ long boot process...annoying!), you can use a standard install floppy with a created /etc/boot.conf file containing:

    boot hd1a:/bsd

> My openbsd MBR partition (0xa6) is the 2nd (starts from 0) on

If I am reading the NetBSD output you are showing correctly, your OpenBSD partition is STILL well past the 8G point, not going to work, unless you have yet another partition someplace else to put / on... based on your original posting, I assumed you had one drive, and suggested adding a second. Now that we see you have two, you would have to add a third, assuming you have no space below the 8G point on either of the two existing drives.

> Thanks so much,

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