On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:38:15AM +0200, ZELLER Balázs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> im a newbie to BSD, and have some questions about booting.
> I installed netbsd 1.6 to my i386/ide machine over ftp. partitioning was
> no problem, the system loks like:
> wd0: 40GB
> 3. partition ~10GB
> wd0a: / 2GB
> wd0b: swap 256MB
> wd0e: /home 2GB
> wd0f: /usr 2GB
> wd0g: /var ~5GB
> 
> after the installation the system will not boot (after a simply
> restart). there is no other OS, partition active...
> after restart: no operating system
> then i tried install the bootloader:
> F4: NetBSD
> im waiting, then i see:3.
> nothing more
> 
> by the next install i leaved everything as default. partitioning
> ,slices... the same result.

Can you please post the outputs of fdisk wd0 and disklabel wd0
Can you start from floppy, and at the boot promt, type
boot hd0a:

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