On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:59:50PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:50:02PM +0000, Code Blue wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:26:54PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote: > > > > > > > Aside from the bootblocks not > > > > installing > > > > from either 5.1 release or the 5.2. snapshot, everything seems to be > > > > working. > > > > > > Care to share details about this? > > > > In my first couple of installs on this new machine using 5.1 release and the > > current snapshot I got the following messages at the end of the > > installation: > > > > Making all device nodes...done > > mkdir: /mnt2/boot: Invalid argument > > cp: /mnt2/boot/bsd: Invalid argument > > Failed to install bootblocks. > > You will not be able to boot OpenBSD from wd0 > > Were this "whole disk" installs? Please share some more details.
No, as you probably know the disk is now 160G on the Fuloong. I couldn't imagine needing so much space for my intended use of OpenBSD so I decided to dual boot OpenBSD and some flavor of Linux. While I still had the original preinstalled Linux available I partitioned the drive for my OpenBSD and future Linux install and then did the OpenBSD installation in the OpenBSD partition. Custom layout. > > I fixed this by copying boot to the boot partition and PMON has no trouble > > booting it. > > > > The second install of the snapshot ended normally. > > Second install of the same snap? Yes, and I wondered if somehow the installer detected I had boot saved in an ext2 partition (which was not true of the first two installs but was by the third install, which was the second snapshot install), but I really can't imagine how it would know. -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Please follow up to the mailing list against HTML e-mail X and proprietary / \ Mutt.org attachments Code Blue or Go Home!