--On 08 July 2005 12:14 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> 20GB EIDE HD
>
> Anyway, I gave up on that, and simply created / and swap
Ah, you don't want a 20GB root partition. It might work now or might
not. If it works now, it might work later when you update the kernel,
or it might not, depending on your hardware. Stick to a few hundred MB
maximum. This isn't your current problem, but you'll save some future
frustration by fixing it.
cohasset# fdisk wd0
Disk: wd0 geometry: 2434/255/63 [39102210 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
--- *0: A6 0 1 1 - 2610 213 34 [ 63: 41943040 ]
OpenBSD 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
unused
I think re-doing the installation should probably fix things. Let the
installer do the fdisk stage itself ("Do you want to use *all* of wd0
for OpenBSD?" = yes) in which case it will end up in partition 3. This
is more likely to use the correct size for the drive than doing it
yourself. If you're following faq4, now scroll on ~3 screens full to
"Creating a disklabel" and pick it up from there.
Here are the results of fdisk, disklabel, and dmesg (it's long; hope
I don't get yelled at :-) ):
Some people asking questions seem to be worried they'll send too much
information in their messages, perhaps thinking that it'll annoy
readers. In actual fact, it's much less annoying to have all the
relevant information presented at once, even if some is surplus.
Without this a quick 'look through the information provided and suggest
a fix' is turned into a protracted 'ask for the information, wait for
an answer, think about it, and then suggest a fix'.
It's not always possible to know what information to include, of
course, but the full dmesg is requested all the places you're likely to
find about the mailing list from (e.g. faq2, mail.html). Then add to
that: if you suspect a network problem, include your network
configuration files. If you suspect a disk problem, include the disk
layouts. etc.
