Thanks everyone who responded. Your helpful suggestions are appreciated.
Being new to BSD I was struggling a bit with some of the command line
differences to linux, but when I took a look at fdisk, it showed me that the
MBR partition ('slice') id was A5 and not A6. Wierd. I simply changed it
to A6 et voila! It's now working fine.
Once again, thanks for the suggestions. This thread is now closed.
On 6/7/07, Shag Bag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've installed OpenBSD4.1 from the 3 CD set which I purchased shortly
> after it was released and have been running it on and off ever since.
> However, this morning I tried to boot it and it came up with the above error
> (full error listing below).
>
> I re-installed the whole OS yesterday (everything except bsd.mp and
> game41.tgz) and it was working fine. The only thing I did after
> re-install was add a few packages and ports and compile the LookXP source
> packages from http://lxp.sourceforge.net. I have not knowingly touched
> the boot.conf file at all so I'm at a loss as to how the above error is
> showing.
>
> I have read the biosboot(8) man page but it didn't help. I am new to
> OpenBSD having come from a brief linux background and would appreciate any
> help.
>
> I could always simply re-install OpenBSD4.1 again but this would be a last
> resort as:
> i) I'd like to know what the cause of the problem is and how to fix it -
> in case it happens again;
> ii) I wouldn't learn anything if I simply reinstalled everytime; and
> iii) I've spent a lot of time configuring icewm to get it like I want and
> am loathed to go through this process again.
>
> The full error list I'm getting is:
>
> Loading...
> probing: pc0 apm mem[632K 2046M a20=on]
> disk: fd0 hd0+*
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.13
> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Invalid argument
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /obsd
> boot>
> booting hda0:/obsd: open hda0a:/obsd: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /bsd.old
> boot>
> booting hda0:/bsd.old: open hda0a:/bsd.old: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /bsd
> boot>
> booting hda0:/bsd: open hda0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /obsd
> boot>
> booting hda0:/obsd: open hda0a:/obsd: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /bsd.old
> boot>
> booting hda0:/bsd.old: open hda0a:/bsd.old: Invalid argument
> failed(22). will try /bsd
> Turning timeout off.
> boot> _
