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I'm in the process of installing openbsd 3.2, the install appears to go ok but will not boot. So I tried the install again, when I opt to partition I noticed the disk the signature (in geometry) reads as 0x0 instead of 0xAA55. I'm using Lucas's 'Absolute OpenBSD' as my install guide together with the info from the openbsd.org site but I can't put my finger on exactly where I'm going wrong, which I obviously am somewhere. Someone please put me out of my misery.

Hi,

Is there any error when you try to boot ? What are exactly the symphoms ? What is the size of the disk ? Are you installing OBSD on the beginning of the disk ?

Thanks for the quick reply, the main problem is that after the installation it would'nt boot up. I'm using a maxtor 40GB IDE drive and putting bsd on app' a 10GB slice which is made into an active partition. there's nothing else on the disk

disk geometry is :
disk : wd0
77557 / 254 / 63 with app' 78,177,456 sectors.
offset : 0 signature : 0x0 ( not oxAA55 as it should be )
# id
*0 A6

I'm starting from cyl 0 to 1
# : id C H S - C H S
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 06 0 1 1 - 1500 254 63

I;ve a feeling that its something to do with my disk partitioning ?

Appreciate the help, got me going in the right direction. Now I'm dealing with xf86. I guess this is moot as I'll more then likely end up using just the CLI.
Thanks