Subject: Re: stuck booting 1.0A
To: Jim Spath <jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
From: Mark F Willey <willey@ecn.purdue.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/28/1995 11:41:58
"In a previous message, Jim Spath wrote:"
> 
> I'm trying to install the binaries from May 15th (aka 1.0A) on
> an ALR DX4/100 with an EIDE/LBA drive.  I've managed to get
> the drive partitioned, and on reboot, the install script asks
> if I want the kernel copied.  This worked, except that on trying
> reboot from the hard drive I get "Read error."  I can run the
> new kernel if I boot from floppy and enter wd(0,a)netbsd, so
> it appears the hard disk boot track is not correct.  Any ideas?

Does it even show the 'boot menu'?  Does this read error look like a netbsd
error, or a BIOS error?  Show me your disklabel, and tell me how you
installed it.

Mark