On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hello,

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> 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

I dunno, never tried to blindly install on a Plextor, I got the serial

console working first.
diana