On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:37:10PM +0200, jgre@tzi.de wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed NetBSD 1.6 i386 for the first time and it works pretty well
> exept for two problems at startup:
> 1. I have to enter the root device every time when booting
> 2. Every second startup the keyboard is lost after the prompt for the root
> device but before the login prompt.
> 
> The problem with the root device might have something to do with the fact that
> I have NetBSD installed on the second IDE disk (root: wd1a) and the first disk
> has some ext3 and FAT partitions and during boot I get a message that no disk
> label was found on wd0. I'm loading NetBSD with grub (directly without
> chainloader). 

grub is the problem: it doesn't pass to the kernel the infos in needs to
find the root device. Either have grub load the NetBSD kernel loader,
or recompile a kernel with
netbsd root on wd1a 
in the config file.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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