Instalation Problems

[Arquimedes <maquibog@df1.telmex.net.mx>]

Good night

I've read the instalation howtos and nothing happends.

This is my problem

My computer has two hard disks, the master 4.0 gb ( 1/2 is for linux
and the other half I want to use it for OpenBSD) and a slave 2.0 wich
has ext2 filesystem (my bakup disk).

So, I put the openbsd cd and reboot from linux.

The OpenBSD instalation process begins.

First...

fdisk
it tells in first time that is on

0    bla    bla    bla     bla    Linux
1     0        0        0        0
2     0        0        0        0
3     0        0        0        0

some text stuf
and then

0    bla    bla    bla    bla    Linux Swap
1    0        0        0        0
2    0        0        0        0
3    0        0        0        0

and ask me for something to do
fdisk>

This is were everything goes wrong.

I've tried four choices

********** 1 *********
reinit
write
quit

NOTE: this seems to be a BIG mistake, some howto tells that dont put the
"write" command.
*********************

********* 2 **********
edit 3
and put the A6 partition wich describes OpenBSD
flag 3 for make it booteable
*********************

********** 3 ***********
edit 1
and put the A6
flag 1
***********************

********** 4 ***********
reinit
quit

NOTE: in this case i dont put the "write" command.
***********************


In all the past choices
the next step is the disklabel
if i want to see the partitions
the partitions up to "i" not appears
so, linux has gone
This is no problem, i can live without linux, thats why i want to
install openbsd
and make new partitions a,b,d,e,g,h
I put just the size of the partitions.

After this the instalation is succesfuly.

The problems are when i tried to reboot the system with OpenBSD.

In the three first options when i reboot the system this appears on my
screen

*********************
reading boot .......
error
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and stay like that, I have to power down the computer. The ctlr+alt+del
doesnt work

In the 4 option
On my screen apears

**********************
MBR on floppy or old BIOS
Using Drive 0 Partition 3
reading boot
Bad Magic
*********************
and stay like this.


If i reboot with the cd on the cdrom drive, and get to the shell
i can mount the partition with the OpenBSD
doing this

fsck /dev/fwd0a && mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
cp /usr/mdea/boot /mnt/boot
/usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot wd0

and i can see on /mnt the OpenBSD installed

In the 4 cases
I can reboot with the boot disk, and when the

boot>    prompt apears
if i type this
a error happends

**************
boot> boot wd0a:/bsd
booting wd0a:/bsd 1851392+118754+766720+[74856 failed[5]
**************
and returns to the boot> prompt

if i want to reboot for the instaltion process

**************
boot> boot fd0a:/bsd
**************

and openbsd boot for the instalation proces via cdrom



Another rare thing

in one of the cases, when the screen tells me the

MBR on floppy or old BIOS...
if i boot with the cdrom
and try to mount the partition wd0a where is supossed to be openbsd
installed
this happends

*************
fsck /dev/rwd0a && mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
Cant open /dev/rwd0a: Device not configured
mount_ffs: /dev/rwd0a on /mnt: Device not configured
*************

This is my problem

What is happening. What im doing wrong

Thanks for everything

Arquimedes from Mexico City