jardarab+news-200506@pvv.ntnu.no (Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen) writes:

> Actually, after a quick Google-search I booted from CD, mounted /dev/wd0a
> on /mnt and discovered that indeed there were no wd0* devices in /mnt/dev.

so Something Horrible happened during the install.

> and similar for the other partitions. When I rebooted from the hard disk,
> it all worked great!

Good thing it was fixable.

> A final question from a novice: Should /dev/wd0 exist?

on a randomly chosen OpenBSD box here,

peter@skapet:~$ ls -l /dev/wd0
ls: /dev/wd0: No such file or directory
peter@skapet:~$ ls -l /dev/wd0*
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0a
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 1 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0b
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 2 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0c
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 3 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0d
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 4 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0e
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 5 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0f
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 6 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0g
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 7 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0h
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 8 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0i
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 9 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0j
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 10 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0k
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 11 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0l
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 12 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0m
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 13 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0n
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 14 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0o
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 15 Oct 19 00:02 /dev/wd0p

so /dev/wd0 does not exist.

> And in /etc/fstab I cannot find the swap partition. Should I add it?

on the same machine,

peter@skapet:~$ cat /etc/fstab
#/dev/wd1a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd2a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd1a /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0a /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0

which indicates that you would want a line similar to the last one in
yours as well.

On the whole it looks like the main problem was that the installer did
not get to finish properly. I still suspect bad or not fully supported
hardware as the root cause. I would spend some time troubleshooting that
before putting the box into any kind of serious production use.

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