I have installed OpenBSD 3.4 on the 2nd partition of my 2nd hard disc.
Installation went OK, I can mount all the slices fine under Linux, but
I can't get the operating system to boot.

I am using Grub.

If I type 'kernel --type=openbsd (hd1,1,a)/boot' I get an error message
about not being able to load programs below 1MB. If I type 'kernel
--type=openbsd (hd1,1,a)/bsd)' I get 'panic: /boot too old: upgrade' (even
though I didn't go through /boot!).

Any clues?

-Nigel

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:47:32 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:

> I am using Grub.

Here I use grub 0.94 and OpenBSD 3.5 and simply type

rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
boot

and off it goes !

YMMV

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:50:15 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> rootnoverify (hd0,2)
> chainloader +1
> boot

That says 'reading Boot, bad magic' then hangs

> YMMV

-Nigel

Nigel Horne <njh@despammed.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:50:15 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
>
> > rootnoverify (hd0,2)
> > chainloader +1
> > boot
>
> That says 'reading Boot, bad magic' then hangs

before version 3.5, openbsd could not be booted from a partition located
above the 1024th cylinder of the disk, generating the bad magic error.
since you used 3.4, this could be the source of your problem. just use 3.5
in that case.

--
steven

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:12:34 +0000, steven mestdagh wrote:


> before version 3.5, openbsd could not be booted from a partition located
> above the 1024th cylinder of the disk, generating the bad magic error.
> since you used 3.4, this could be the source of your problem. just use 3.5
> in that case.

:-(

Thanks anyway.

Dixitur illum njh@despammed.com scribere...

>I am using Grub.

Try compiling sysutils/pxegrub from MirPorts (the port should
work fine under OpenBSD) and copy the stage{1,2} binaries to
your GNU system and install them from there.

You _might_ need to use
config bsd root on wd1a swap on wd1b
instead of
config bsd generic
in the kernel configuration file - I use GNU Grub only for
netbooting or loading the bsd.rd kernel; the former has
been replaced by /usr/mdec/pxeboot since yesterday.

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On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:47:32 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:

> I have installed OpenBSD 3.4 on the 2nd partition of my 2nd hard disc.
> Installation went OK, I can mount all the slices fine under Linux, but
> I can't get the operating system to boot.
>
> I am using Grub.
>
> If I type 'kernel --type=openbsd (hd1,1,a)/boot' I get an error message
> about not being able to load programs below 1MB. If I type 'kernel
> --type=openbsd (hd1,1,a)/bsd)' I get 'panic: /boot too old: upgrade' (even
> though I didn't go through /boot!).
>
> Any clues?
>
> -Nigel
my linux grub:

title OpenBSD 3.5
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

works fine with OBSD on hda2
Until I tried the your way I also couldn't boot obsd after install