>On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:34:11PM +0100, Frank Lingott wrote:
>> No,i didnīt.The problem is that the system doesnīt come up after install.
>> It blocks the computer.Netbsd is on the second disk,after install the system 
>> reboots,the hd-controller lists the first disk and thatīs all.There is noway to 
>> boot a floppy.I had to connect the second disk instead of the first disk on
>> the controller to make a bios-hd-format.This was the only was to make it 
>> work again.Strange,isnīt it?

>Can be a problem with geometry. When installing, try to enter
>1024/16/63 as BIOS geometry (instead of accepting the proposed one), and also
>enter these values in BIOS as well.
>This mean your boot partition has to be in the fisrt 512MB (and I assume
>your disk is larger than 512MB of course :)

No,sorry,itīs an old disk.
Here is the label:

Seagate ST3283A
978 cyl
14 heads
35 sect
245.36 MB            

I think it is a problem to access the controller at boottime.
But i am not an specialist :-)

Thanks for reply

Frank