[rescue] OpenBSD

[George Adkins]

> > Of course, it _will_not_ install FreeBSD on a DEC Celebris, has some
> > troubles on some ALR gear
>
> NO. No you don't. I'll not have you bad mouthing The Project over some
> damn PC's wonky M$ infected BIOS. Why do I know this? I *have* a DEC
> Celebris. It will boot from floppy, every time. My workaround was to write
> to the / of the boot floppy that boot(1) needed to call
> wd0--- something. Then it booted fine. I've tried every known combination
> (different layouts, partitions, boot code) until I swapped the drive and
> booted to it and found the system installed fine. That damn BIOS could
> give a rat's ass more.
>
???
are you saying that you did or did-not finally get it to boot off of the hard 
disk (as in functionally booting) as opposed to requiring some cheeseball 
startup floppy to get the system breathing (i.e., not functionally booting).

If you actually got it to _boot_ (the right way), then I'm _very_, _very_ 
interested in the particulars of how to accomplish this.


> > and I'm _PISSED_OFF_ that the jackasses seem to have removed
> > the "Dedicated Disk" option from the installer...  I have to start all my
> > 4.4 installs with a 4.2 disk to keep it from putting that crappy 64
> > sector empty space in front of the root slice (Just in case you wanted to
> > dual boot to winBlows...)
>
> I'll poke a steve about this; I used to use it as well. It might have been
> removed to save space or complexity. FreeBSD does aim toward a larger
> populus than Open/NetBSD.
>
Much appreciated.  Let him know that a hardcore FreeBSD user is having to 
boot off of old cd's in order to do a proper install.

George