I'm attempting to install OpenBSD on a fancy new home server equipment I just bought.
I followed this guide to create a bootable USB flash drive from an OpenBSD VM I have on my laptop. But when I try to boot my laptop on it all I get is a "No OS" message. I tried two different USB keys.
Does anyone know that problem and its solution?
Edit : fdisk on sd0 in the VM :
#fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 122/255/63 [1974271 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
*3: A6 0 1 1 - 121 254 63 [ 63: 1959867 ] OpenBSD
Best Answer
Instead of following that guide, why not just plug the usb stick into your main computer, boot from a CD, and install OBSD on the USB stick as if it were a regular Hard Drive? That's what I did and now I have a wonderful "live" USB stick to play around with that I can also use for installing OBSD.
Here's the directions right on openbsd.org's web site. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive
To use it as an install guide, put bsd.rd under / on the drive. When you boot the drive, tell it to use bsd.rd. That'll start the install.
I put the other install files under /usr/local//
Once I've boot bsd.rd, I just point to that location to install OpenBSD.