Re: Problems booting openbsd3.1 on wd1a

[<rabbit@kotnet.org>]

Hmm... that doesn't look good...

After a quick search through the list archives I found this answer by
Nick Holland, to someone with a similar problem you're having:

<begin quote>
> What other reasons are there for a "bad magic" error? With only a
400MB /
> partition, it would seem that that isn't the problem.

Well, I'm thinking there is either something in your proceedure used
(no details given, so can't say for sure) or perhaps the bsd file you
are using is dammaged. For example, you make your own CD-ROM or use a
local FTP server, and the /bsd file was downloaded in ASCII mode
instead of BINARY mode. Saw this once before on the list, kinda a
weird problem where /bsd is the only file dammaged, as *.tgz are error
checked by the gzip compression, though it has happened (I can imagine
situations...usually involved a wildcard mget of *.tgz and forgetting
to grab bsd at the same time). Not quite the same symptoms as last
time, though (but that was probably 2.9, or a snapshot of 3.0, which
would probably choke in a different way).
<end quote>

So maybe that's it?

 - rabbit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Black Berry" <blackberry@kyuzz.org>

> I decided to follow your help, as a latest resource to solve the
problem.
> So at the installation i've choosed to use entire wd1 disk, creating
the
> following slices:
>
> wd1a: 64MB              /
> wd1b: 256MB             swap
> wd1d: 500MB             /var
> wd1e: 31427MB   /usr
>
>
> at Bios Boot:
> boot> machine diskinfo
> Disk    Bios    Type    Cyls    Heads   Secs    Flags   Checksum
> [...]
> hd1     0x81    ESDI    1024    255     63      0x2     0x4f8e87e3
> [...]
>
> boot> machine boot hd1a
> Booting from hd1a [81]
> Using Drive: 1 Partition: 3
> reading boot ......
> Bad magic