Subject: Booting NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Brady <gregory@skatter.usask.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/15/1996 05:48:35
Hi!
I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.1 on my home system right now, but I can't 
get it to boot off of my hard drive.  I only have one floppy, so I've 
tried intalling the kernel before I install the distribution files.  I am 
installing it on my second hard drive (i.e. wd1), whose geometry is 
(according to my CMOS set-up program, in LBA mode)
	Cylinders	Heads	Sectors
	   619		  64	  63
with 512 bytes/sector
I have allocated space from cylinder 382 to cylinder 617 for use by 
NetBSD.  When I copy the kernel using the "copy_kernel" command, and 
instruct it that my root partition is wd1a, everything seems to work 
properly.  When I reboot, it always boots me back into DOS (well...Win95, 
but well all know that's just a kludge sitting on top of DOS).  I was 
wondering if you could give me some insight into what's wrong here.  Do I 
have to allocate space on drive 0 to boot into NetBSD?  I don't want to 
do that, as the space I put NetBSD into was previously two DOS logical 
drives in an extended partition, and it was fairly simple to resize 
without backing up approx. 700 megs of data, and reinstalling it.
Hope you might have some suggestions
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