You have assumed that because I have used some resource for new users that I have not read any of the official documentation. This would be untrue. In fact, INSTALL.i386 was the first thing I read while grabbing the ISO, but since I have had no problems with a larger bootable partition with Linux, I anticipated no problems with the larger partition sizes recommended on the aforementioned website. The minimum partition sizes from the FAQ are for a substantially smaller hard drive, and, obviously, scaling the sizes by the almost order of magnitude of difference would not have been a good idea.
There are other supplemental resources out there, and not all of them are bad. Thanks anyway. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Calvert Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:34 PM To: Ryan Smith Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3 Bootloader waiting for keypress before loading kernel On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Ryan Smith wrote: > > My root partition is 10GB in size, following the recommendation of > openbsd101.com. I have had no other problems with other operating > systems, > but perhaps I was just getting lucky with the bootloader being > loaded in the > appropriate region for the BIOS. I will try reinstalling with a > smaller > root. what is openbsd101.com? nevermind, don't answer. you might consider reading the install documentation supplied with the product you're installing though. ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/INSTALL.i386 Ben
