Georges Heinesch <geohei_ml@geohei.lu> wrote:

I can't see anything obvious errors with your setup, but here are a few
suggestions.

> Here what HDToolbox says about my NetBSD_root: partition:

[...]

> Cylinders: 3104
> Heads: 1
> Blocks per Track: 2864
> locks per Cylinder: 2864

Are you sure this is correct? If I remember correctly HDToolBox will only
display this information based on what the drive reports (which may differ
from what is in the RDB) as it only displays this in the drive
initialization display. (the exception being a mountlist saved by AmigaOS
3.5 HDToolBox)

Icons for mount file can hold LowCyl, HighCyl, etc. settings. I'm not sure
whether these override what is in the mount file or not, but if you copied
an icon from another mount file then that could explain it.

Have you used the phase5 tools to partition the harddisk at some point?
AFAICR there is some disagreement between HDToolBox and phase5's tools
about some geometry setting, so they should not both be used on the same
unit. I don't remember the details, so I can't tell you if this is "fatal"
or not.

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> When I mount the partition from the Shell, nothing happens.
> When I make a dir to the partition, a requester pops up which says:
> "No disk present in device NETBSD_ROOT" (uppercase!?!?)

That's exactly what I got once when I mounted a partition using incorrect
geometry. I guess this is the filesystem's way of telling us it didn't
find the root block.