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