Subject: Re: Can't boot from hdd after successful installation of 3.0
To: Sigmund Skjelnes <skjelnes@robin.no>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/2006 18:22:52
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:06:12PM +0100, Sigmund Skjelnes wrote:
> After install of NetBSD 3.0 the cd were removed and the machine 
> rebooted. After ram check etc. it wrote "NetBSD MBR boot" at the top of 
> the screen, and the hdd lamp is flashing, but no more is happening.
> 
> The bootloader starts ok when I'd boot from cd, and I'd stopped it and 
> entered "boot hd0a:netbsd", it boots ok.

I suspect that the old mbr code got copied to the start of the netbsd
partition (instalboot has a habit of doing that - fixed in current).
Boot from CD, then rerun instalboot.

	David

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