Subject: Re: your mail
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/11/2005 21:24:32
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:35:14AM +0200, oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de wrote:
> > # dd if=/dev/rwd1d count=1 of=/tmp/funny_mbr.txt
>
> This gives me:
> 00000000 31 c0 8e d0 66 bc 00 7c 00 00 8e c0 8e d8 89 e6 |1?.?f?.|...?.?.?|
...
> 00000140 75 af 8a 16 4b 07 ea 00 7c 00 00 80 49 6e 76 61 |u?..K.?.|...Inva|
> 00000150 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta|
> 00000160 62 6c 65 00 4e 6f 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 |ble.No operating|
> 00000170 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f | system.Error lo|
> 00000180 61 64 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 |ading operating |
> 00000190 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |system..........|
...
Which is text that has never been in the netbsd - or at least, not one
I remember.
So who knows the conditions on which it write out it's "No operating system"
error message.
Try running 'fdisk -c mbr /dev/wd1' from the netbsd 2.0 install.
David
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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk