Re: Problems booting openbsd3.1 on wd1a

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive

You were lucky that it worked on wd0a.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Black Berry" <blackberry@kyuzz.org>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 05:22
Subject: Re: Problems booting openbsd3.1 on wd1a


> At 13.47 19/06/2002 +0400, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:10:57AM +0200, Black Berry wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > i've installed openbsd 3.1 from cd to wd1a .
> > > After that i want to boot from boot> or booteasy , but i get a Bad
> > Magic Error.
> > >
> > > What i'm doing wrong?
> >
> >What drive do you use (the exact model name)? Were there any error
> >messages at the end of installation when the installboot program had been
> >executed?
>
> # dmesg | grep wd1
> wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <IC35L040AVVA07-0>
> wd1: 16-sectors PIO, LBA, 32253MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 66055248
sectors
> wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
>
> During the installation, i've created following partitions:
>          size            offset          fstype  [fsize  bsize   cpg]
> a:      65519055        63              4.2BSD  1024    8192    16
> b:      524097          65519118        swap
>
> Creating filesystem i get this:
> Warning: 946 secto(s) in last cylinder unallocated
>
> also the makefs of /dev/rwd1a  completes successfully...
> installation sets too ...
>
> [...]
> Making all device nodes (by running /dev/MAKEDEV all) ...... done.
> Install boot block...
> boot: /mnt/boot
> proto: /usr/mdec/biosboot
> device: /dev/rwd1c
> /usr/mdec/biosboot: entry point 0
> proto bootblock size 512
> room from 12 flesystem blocks at 0x16f
> Will load 7 blocks of size 8192 each.
> Using disk geometry of 63 sectors and 255 heads.
> 0: 38 @(0 154 26) (9727-9764)
> 1: 58 @(0 155 1) (9765-9822)
> 2: 15 @(0 11 49) (741-755)
> 3: 1   @(0 12 1) (756-756)
> /mnt/boot: 4 entries total
> using MBR partition 3: type 166 (0xa6) offset 63 (0x3f)
> [...]
> CONGRATULATIONS ...
> [...]
> #
>
> I think is not a problem of large drives, cause if i use the same disk as
> wd0a, all works fine and boots correctly.