problem with 4.4 installboot

Michael bsd4me at cableone.net
Thu Oct 23 16:26:03 CEST 2008


I have been trying to install 4.4 on a previous 4.3 partition, but keep
getting this message after installation:
installboot: broken MBR
And then when booting from the hd, all I get is: ERR M

Thinking I did something wrong, I tried installing 4.4 again and got the
same response. I then tried just upgrading and got the same response.
Knowing that 4.3 installed and ran fine, I grabbed that cd and installed
4.3. It installed just fine, so I used my backup files and got 4.3 the
way I use it and let it go for some time. This morning I tried
installing 4.4 again and got the same ol problem again.

I'm not on the misc maillist at the moment, but have checked marc for
anybody else having this problem. If memory serves me correctly, I've
been running OpenBSD on this machine since about 4.2 with no problems.

My homebrewed computer is: 1.2 ghz Duron, 256 megs ram, radeon 7000
video and soundblaster live sound card.
I have Windows on here for the dreaded emails with pps files, linux to
run flash and other nonsense. I try to keep my OpenBSD system clean ;)

Thanks for any help.
btw- would it help if I rejoined misc and sent this to them also?


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