Hello,
I have a serial console on my Plextor PX-EH40L which seems to be broken
now (no RX available). After quite a few testings of various OSes, the
disk is now blanked. Until I get a new serial console, I'd like to try
OpenBSD 4.4 on that disk. I couldn't find the procedure to manually
install OpenBSD on it. I'm not talking about the disklabel/fdisk/newfs/tar
part :) I can probably manage that one. I'm more concerned about making
the installation bootable.
Is the INSTALLBOOT(8) command enough to prepare the disk to boot the system ?
Let's say I boot OpenBSD/i386 on my laptop.
Prepare and untar /landisk binaries onto /mnt ; the disk being pluggued
via an IDE/USB adapter and recognised as /dev/sd0.
Would the following commands make the disk bootable ?
# cp -p /mnt/usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /mnt/usr/mdec/biosboot sd0
TIA,
Jo
