Subject: Re: install, but no boot
To: None <port-sgimips@NetBSD.org>
From: dominick dreiser <dvd@corebsd.de>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/17/2006 15:45:40
I seemed to remember that I had problems with disks that had Irix or 
linux on them,
Same issue no boot after install.
after a quick fx, I could install netbsd and boot it.
Anyway like I said " If I remember right " :)


Michael-John Turner wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:59PM +0100, dominick dreiser wrote:
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>>If I remember right, you need to partition the disks using fx.
>>http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/irix-install.html
>>Then after you are done, proceed to install netbsd.
>>At least this is what I recall doing.
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>I'm not sure if this was a requirement in the past, but I definitely didn't
>have to do that when I installed 2.0.2 on my R5K Indy. I installed onto a
>fresh disk that had never had Irix installed on it.
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>-mj
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