Re: 6.1.5 after install "open netbsd: no such file or directory": after successful install, can't boot

[ron georgia <rong1611%gmail.com@localhost>]

John,

I don't know if you have resolved this issue, but I had a similar issue on an AMD FX-6300 (Six-Core). I had the BIOS setting for SATA configuration set to IDE. When I changed the setting to AHCI it worked like a charm.

I did install FreeBSD, PCBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD and Mint Linux successfully. Yah, over kill, but I wanted to be sure the drive and controller worked.

r0n ge0rgia

Ron Georgia

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John 13:23
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On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM, John Refling <netbsdrat%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Still have the same problem as here:

 

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2013/12/07/msg013685.html

 

with 6.1.5, after install from CD, on boot get:

 

“open netbsd: no such file or directory”

 

The disk had FreeBSD on it and zeroing out the first part of the disk did not help on multiple reinstall attempts.

 

ONLY AFTER ZEROING ENTIRE DISK USING COMMAND FROM INSTALL CD BEFORE INSTALL HELPED:

 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=10m

 

WHY IS THIS ????  Even when I zeroed out the first part of the disk (presumably the partition table info) and rebooting (to remove any inkernel memory of old partition table info) the install failed.

 

Had to zero ENTIRE disk.

 

Also, the first attempt to install NetBSD after FreeBSD resulted in newfs failing since “device was busy”… I wonder if dk (disk wedge controller) was controlling part of the disk and interfering with newfs and partitioning.

 

The install program should be able to start with fresh info and create fresh bootable partition and turn off drivers that interfere with that.

 

John Refling