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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
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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.