Subject: Re: compling mbr for boot from wd1?
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Scott Presnell <srp@tworoads.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/01/2005 14:59:55
David Laight wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:38:58PM -0700, Scott Presnell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks, but that didn't work.  BTW, the error message is always
>>"Error No active partition"  but indeed the hd1/wd1 0th partition
>>is marked active and is type 169 as shown by NetBSD's fdisk.
>>Other suggestions?
> 
> 
> Doesn't the windoze boot whatsit execute a local copy of the partition
> boot code, rather than reading it from the disk at boot time?
> 
> In which case the file you gave it doesn't contain a valid partition table.
> 
> 	David
> 

(d'oh!)

With this in mind I took the boot sectors directly from /dev/rwd1a
(tried that, no go) and then applied the fix you mentioned earlier,
but that also failed.
Now, however, the error was both times "Error No NetBSD partition"
Other thoughts?

	Thanks.

	- Scott