Subject: Re: How to make hdd bootable?
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/11/2007 17:46:56
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:42:15PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:46:20PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>=20
> > Unless those are very funky, man installboot(8) should be able get you =
going.
>=20
> Yes, using installboot I'm one more step ahead: now it does boot, but the
> kernel's dying, looking for root and swap in improper places: it does want
> root in wd0e, instead of wd0c (where it presently is), and wd0b as swap,
> instead of wd0d.

You're on x86, right?  Using 'c' for user partitions is wrong on all
archs, but on x86 it's wrong to use 'd', too.  How did you end up with
such a broken disklabel?

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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