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Re: MBR boot failure

To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: MBR boot failure
From: Timothy Power <timothy.power@bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:04:43 +0800
Reply-to: timothy.power@bigfoot.com
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
It definately is...  has * 3: A6 ......  OpenBSD 

And I elected to have OpenBSD use the *whole* disk which means it also does 
that for you.

>  
> On Wednesday, February 28, 2001, at 03:08 PM, Larry Moore wrote: 
>  
> > Most probably your active partition is not set to the OpenBSD partition  
> >   
> > Cheers,  
> >   
> > Larry.  
> >   
> > ----- Original Message -----  
> > From: "Timothy Power" <timothy.power@bigfoot.com>  
> > To: <misc@openbsd.org>  
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:27 PM  
> > Subject: MBR boot failure  
> >   
> >   
> > > Hi, I've installed OpenBSD 2 or 3 times now on one of my machines as the  
> > MBR failes to boot... I've tried booting from another HD that doesn't work  
> > as the BIOS won't allow it?  
> > >  
> > > Anyway I've select pretty standard options, OpenBSD has the entire 
> > > disk...  
> > then slice it up quite normally.  I get this message when it boots:  
> > > Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3  
> > >  
> > > and then it hangs.  
> > >  
> > > I can put the install floppy back in and at the boot prompt type, boot  
> > wd0a:/bsd and it boots up happily.  
> > >  
> > > What is wrong?  
> > >  
> > > I do not have this problem on 2 other machines that run OpenBSD.   The  
> > machine previously had Windows NT on it and booted up fine.  
> > >  
> > > Tim  
> > > --Tim  
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> >   
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>  
> --Tim 
>  

--Tim

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