On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello again,
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx <umaxx@oleco.net> wrote:
>> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd
>> for initial installation procedure since dettus.net was not really
>> working for me cause of MBR boot issues (probably my fault).
>>
>>> (Also I guess I should take amd64 there?)
>>
>> Yes.
>
> I've now rented Strato's SR-7 server and since the dettus.net
> method (cat floppy47.fs > /dev/sda) doesn't work for me,
> I'm trying the qemu method you've suggested, but

Where on that page is sentence that you need to use cat floppy47.fs >
/dev/sda? Read this http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html before trying
someones old and untrusted methods and after that try to install
something.

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>
> B qemu -hda install.img -cdrom install47.iso -boot d
>
> stucks during right at the beginning of the boot:
>
> ......
>>> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 2.01
> boot> booting cd0a:/4.7/amd64/bsd.rd: ...numbers....
>
> Should I disable anything to make the kernel boot?

Are you trying this on 64bit machine, with 64bit OS and 64bit Qemu?

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>
> Thanks
> Alex