On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:47:50PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> As a supplimental to this:
> Disk /dev/hda: 45.0 GB, 45020602368 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5815 cylinders, total 87930864 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *        63  83976479  41988208+  a9  NetBSD
> /dev/hda2      83976480  84188159    105840   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3      84188160  87045839   1428840   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4      87045840  87922799    438480    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5      87045903  87922799    438448+  82  Linux swap
> 
> I am completely unable to boot into NetBSD.
> I'd like to try booting with grub, as the netbsd bootloader just gives
> me error 3's.
> Should this work as a grub entry?
> 
>  title NetBSD
>          rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>          chainloader +1

If the NetBSD boot loader is giving 'error 3' it is unlikely that grub
will do any better!

Error 3 is reported when the first sector of the mbr partition (sector
63 here) doesn't contain boot code.  This is usually added by installboot
but it (probably) relies on the root filesystem being at the start of
that partition.

If you boot from the install CD it ought to be possible to sort things out.


	David

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