On 4/14/06, Amadeus Stevenson <amadeus.stevenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just tried with 20060410 20060408 20060407 from releng and each time
> I run the miniroot installer, and get to the newfs part of install I
> get "program ended on signal" when sysinstalll runs:
>

Ok my bad. I was booting from /dev/wd0b, then changing the partition
size od wd0b during install.

I set up partitions before booting -current sysinstall and, without
altering the disklabel, everything is fine until.... installing the
bootloader.

Right after all the sets have been fetched and extracted, when
installing the bootloader:

... /dev/rwd0a is of unknown file type (paraphrased).

So thanks to Eduardo's earlier reply I tried:

dd if=3Dbootblk of=3D/dev/wd0a bs=3D512 count=3D15 conv=3Dnotrunc seek=3D1

but

dd -> conv option disabled.

I tried anyway without conv=3Dnotruct , but on trying to boot from

ok>

get "file loaded is not executable" or the normal message when there
isn't a bootblock.

What have I done wrong? I don't have access to cdburning nor do I have
an nfs server (so netbooting is unavailable).

I suspect it is that I kept the partition table made from a 2.0
sysinstall, although I did specify 'newfs' for each partition (the
swap partition held the -current sysinstall).

Amadeus

ps. having arrow key history in the /bin/sh and backspace in
sysinstall would be helpful.