Subject: Re: 1.3 is really annoying me now
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
From: Geir Inge Jensen <Geir.I.Jensen@fm.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/1998 14:48:35
> } > > The rest of the install went fine, and it asked me if the given
> network } > > setting was correct. Well, I thought it was, and answered
> yes. Ok, time } > > to reboot. Bios reported "No operating system"! What had
> gone wrong -  } > > didn't sysinst run installboot....? Yes, it did, I saw
> the output. After } > 
> } > Sounds like you never installed a kernel.
> } 
> } Of course there was a kernel. However, it never came that long - the PC
> } bios didn't find the boot loader in the MBR, for some strange reason. I
> } don't know why. I had to reformat the disk once more to get this working.
> 
>      Did you change your CMOS settings to match the geometry you used
> when you ran sysinst?  The "No operating system" message is quite
> often the result of a geometry mismatch between CMOS/BIOS and the OS.

It is a SCSI disk, and there is no CMOS settings for it. But I didn't think
it mattered, as long as I use the whole disk for NetBSD? The boot loader
should be located in the first sector of the disk, no matter how it is
laid out. Or am I completely lost here..

- Geir Inge.