Re: OpenBSD 3.2 (auto) Installing Question

[Joshua Steele <selerius@codefusion.org>]

The below message was sent to www@openbsd.org.  It should of went to
misc@openbsd.org.  Your answer is below:

Its possible.  But I believe the chances of that happening are
slim-to-none.  You would have to of hit the "right combination" of
keystrokes in order to do that...meaning, openbsd didn't cause this
problem.

Have you tried using a Windows 98 boot up disk, perhaps it can help.  More
help can be found someplace else, because this is off topic for the
mailing list(s), as it isn't a OpenBSD problem, unless you can convince us
otherwise.

-josh

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Loren Wilson wrote:

> OpenBSD 3.2 (auto) Installing Question
>
> I installed the OpenBSD 3.2 on 1 system last week.
>
> I was sharing the monitor and keyboard with one other,
> running Windows 98, by manually swapping them as needed.
>
> I had the OpenBSD CD in my Win98 system, was browsing the CD.
>
> At some point ... my monitor became unplugged from my Win98
> system, which left me running it without knowing what I
> was doing.
>
> I didn't know what was happening. I stopped the system (power off).
>
> On power on, since I didn't know what was happening, I just pressed
> keys, not seeing *anything* on the monitor change.
>
> So ... the question: *could* I have totally HOSED my Win98 system,
> simply by some how accepting some BOOT options on the OpenBSD 3.2
> disk ??
>
> Accepting things that I *shouldn't* have ???
>
> My boot on the Win98 system is *strange*, it just jumps into OpenBSD
> directly, but ONLY with the CD in the drive. ALL other things look like
> they are *GONE*.  NO Normal Win98 Boot is available.
>
> Is this possible ????
>
> Thank you *very much* for at least *acknowledging* my Ignorance.
>
> Loren
>
>
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