Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 problem booting after installation
To: <>
From: Michael Smith <smithm@netapps.com.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/14/2004 12:15:43
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:52:05 +0000
Michael Smith <smithm@netapps.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:02:13 +1100
> Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > bootxx_ffblah seems to try and boot off an ffs[2] partition if it
> > can see one, my fix was to use disklabel to unconfigure the extra
> > (empty) partition.
> 
> On a hunch I did the installation again. This time with a single
> partition, and a single FFSv1 disklabel for / and the rest of the file
> system. I used installboot again, and rebooted. But I still get
> 
> NetBSD/i386 ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap
> Boot failed (errno  2): Can't open /boot

Problem solved. See my other reply.
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