Re: install/54010: NetBSD didn't boot after installation

[Rami Shibli <rami.shibli%posteo.net@localhost>]

Thank so muchg Martin
I will try again and let you know. The laptop was running on OpenBSD
before. I am not sure if you get my reply to Michael but what I get is
basically:
NetBSD MBR boot
Error No Operating system.

I will try your suggestion and report back.


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Best Regards,
Rami Shibli

On 24/02/19 09:20, Martin Husemann wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR install/54010; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: install/54010: NetBSD didn't boot after installation
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:16:00 +0100
> 
>  On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 08:05:01AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>  >  >Yet after the installation done I couldn't boot the machine. It was giving error boot netbsd and then no operating system available. no matter what I tried to do I just couldn't boot.
>  >  
>  >  Can you be a bit more precise about the error messages? A screenshot maybe?
>  
>  This sounds like a boot block problem to me, maybe an old existing bootblock
>  for another OS was left there (the installer usually asks if you want
>  to replace that).
>  
>  If you want to nuke everything on the disk anyway, and assuming it is some
>  kind of ATA disk showing up as wd0 in NetBSD, you could go to the utility
>  menu in the installer, start a shell, and then do:
>  
>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=100
>  
>  CAVEAT: this will destroy all your disk contents!
>  
>  Then exit the shell, go back to the main menu and do the installation again.
>  
>  Martin
>