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[ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console

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From: Joel CARNAT <joel@...>
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Subject: [ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 9:43 am

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
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[ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console, Joel CARNAT, (Thu Jul 17, 9:43 am)
Re: [ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console, Thomas Schoeller, (Tue Jul 22, 8:05 am)
Re: [ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console, Joel CARNAT, (Wed Jul 23, 5:06 pm)
Re: [ landisk ] - install w/o the serial console, Diana Eichert, (Thu Jul 17, 2:11 pm)