Re: installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-09 Thread Hyjial Irldar
Hi ! Can you send the output of ``./installboot -v -n boot biosboot (your disk dev)'' from the installation medium ? Notice that must be run from the /usr/mdec directory of your installed system, otherwise, installboot(8) will complain about cross-device installation. As a temporay workaround

Re: installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
10 2:23 PM Subject: Re: installboot: broken MBR Nick Holland wrote: T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: Hello, I have linux and openbsd installed on a single drive. Linuxy fdisk shows Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 24017 1929165215

Re: installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-06 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: > T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have linux and openbsd installed on a single drive. Linuxy fdisk shows >> >>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 1 24017 1929165215 Extended >> Partition 1 does

Re: installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-04 Thread Nick Holland
23507 24017 4104576 82 Linux swap / Solaris The linuxy menu.lst shows titleOpenBSD rootnoverify (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader+1 After a clean install, the openbsd installer says: "installboot: broken MBR" which may also be an issue wi

installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-04 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
menu.lst shows titleOpenBSD rootnoverify (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader+1 After a clean install, the openbsd installer says: "installboot: broken MBR" Then GRUB protests when booting openbsd with error 13: "Invalid or unsupported executable format" I hav

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-03 Thread Michael
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:20:54AM -0500, Greg Jones wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:06:04AM -0700, Michael wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: > On

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-03 Thread Greg Jones
Michael wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:06:04AM -0700, Michael wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: ...

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread Michael
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:06:04AM -0700, Michael wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > ... > > > > cd /mnt > > > > > > > > #

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread Michael
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > ... > > > cd /mnt > > > > > > # /usr/mdec/installboot -v boot /mnt/biosboot wd0 > > > > > > It should

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > ... > > > cd /mnt > > > > > > # /usr/mdec/installboot -v boot /mnt/biosboot wd0 > > > > > > It should

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: ... > > cd /mnt > > > > # /usr/mdec/installboot -v boot /mnt/biosboot wd0 > > > > It should not be /usr/mdec/biosboot. Definitely not. ... > Thanks for your answer. If

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread Michael
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 10:35:43 Nov 01, Michael wrote: > > I have been trying to install 4.4 on a previous 4.3 partition, but keep > > getting this message after formatting and new installation: > > installboot: broken

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:35:43 Nov 01, Michael wrote: > I have been trying to install 4.4 on a previous 4.3 partition, but keep > getting this message after formatting and new installation: > installboot: broken MBR > And then when booting from the hd, all I get is: ERR M > This means that insta

installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-01 Thread Michael
I have been trying to install 4.4 on a previous 4.3 partition, but keep getting this message after formatting and new installation: installboot: broken MBR And then when booting from the hd, all I get is: ERR M I have tried a new installation 3 times and then tried "upgrading" after th