Hi Martin, Martin Husemann wrote:
On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:28:46PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:So I have a perfect working 9.3 installation on on an HP ProBook laptop. I boot the CD which works fineTry the BIOS-only install image instead - I bet your system boots the CD via UEFI, but the original installation was BIOS only.
Your explanation sounds plausible.However, "UEFI Boot Mode" is disabled in BIOS, I don't know if it is still used by the CD or "detected" somehow anyway.
How can I tell further?I did get the "bios image". I see it is USB only? no ISO? Of course my USB Key decided to strike, but I used a spare external hard drive. Much faster to write too :) It boots. but tries to do the same silly thing, fsck a non-existing MS-DOS partition.
Yes, this is a bug, the installer should find out and deal with it.
Well, I suppose it can find out at least what partitions are there? Other attempts and workarounds?I already have a half-assed system using sysupgrade, so I want to avoid that. My goal was to use this system with the classic upgrade and then maybe compare files like wscons, etc.
(Although I already have noticed that the framebuffer uses the silly low-resolution font).
Do we have install kernels like I used on OpenBSD before the upgrade tool? download and boot from hard-disk and hope it figures out things better...
Riccardo