Are you sure the BIOS and NetBSD agreed on the drive geometry? Did you also
tell sysinst (which I assume you used) that it could use all of the disk?

	- Joel

> 
> Hiya
> 
> 
> Having taken advantage of CPC's 44GBP bare-bones PC offer, I set about
> installing NetBSD on it so I could play about with networking it with my
> Linux/BeOS/AmigaOS systems.
> 
> Although the installation went just fine, when it got to the 'remove the
> floppy disk and reboot' thing, all I got was a 'Missing operating system'
> message from the BIOS.  The only way I can get it to boot is to use
> the installation floppy, set the device to wd0: and tell it to boot from the
> hard drive kernel - a bit of a pain.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem?  Also, is there
> a way to reinstall a boot block on my hard drive?
> 
> The system is an Escom 486 board with a dx4 100, 24 megs of memory
> a bog-standard 520 Meg harddrive and an Award BIOS.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> 
> C-YA
> Jon
> 
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