Subject: Re: migrate 3.0 to larger drive question
To: Bjoern Bosselmann <bjoern.bosselmann@t-online.de>
From: J.D. Bronson <jbronson@wixb.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/29/2006 17:18:04
At 03:56 PM 8/29/2006, Bjoern Bosselmann wrote:
> >
> > MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM (right after the bios POST)
> >
> > What step(s) did I miss?
>
>It seems so, that the message comes from BIOS than from the bootloader.
>Maybe you have forgotten the bootcode in the MBR? Look at mbr(8) and
>fdisk(8) for more information about it. AFAIK you can update the bootcode
>in the MBR with "fdisk -B".
>
>Regards,
>Bj=C3=B6rn Bosselmann
Well (pie in the face here) I totally forgot to 'fdisk' the drive.
So while I had a label for it and stuff- it has no partitions.
Umm..thanks to all of you for pointing me in the=20
right direction. I made notes of this for the future!
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