On 21:55:02 Dec 08, hogo hogo wrote: > I have got a problem during OpenBSD 4.2 installation. > I install on a QEMU virtual machine on a hard disk with 7000M of size. > In the end of installation process when the system writes MBR onto the disk > I get such a message: > > Installing boot block... > boot: /mnt/boot > proto: /usr/mdec/biosboot > device: /dev/rwd0c > /usr/mdec/biosboot: entry point 0 > proto bootblock size 512 > /mnt/boot is 3 blocks x 16384 bytes > fs block shift 2; part offset 63; inode block 24, offset 1704 > installboot: broken MBR > done >
This means that no matter how many ever times you try you are going to keep getting this message and make no progress at all. ;) You have to zero out your MBR with the dd command or fdisk. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=512 count=1 Be careful with this command. It can cause real havoc if you give the wrong disk or if you goof up in any other way. You have been warned. Another thing you can try of course is the fdisk reinit command. I remember getting this error and I vaguely remember it was caused by a bad fdisk partition or something. I wish I knew exactly what went wrong. But trying out various methods saved my day. Best of luck! -Girish
