Subject: Re: The day after ...
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/24/1997 12:25:20
On Feb 24,  1:21pm, <KLE@SWE.GPPM.DE> wrote:
> Subject: The day after ...
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> Hi there,
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> a few days ago, I installed RiscBSD on my system. All sets too.
> All worked fine. The day after, I tried to boot again and , wondering,
> all I had installed was gone. ! :-((. I had to boot with a ramdisk.
> The booter told me that there are no disklabels etc.
> The complete partition seemed to be destroyed ?
> How can this occure ?

The normal reason is overlapping partitions (probably the RiscOS partition was
longer than bb_riscbsd thought it was).

> do I have to copy the kernel as /netbsd or in a directory called
> /netbsd ?
> Wolfgang

It is a good idea, otherwise things like ps which need access to the kernel
symbol table don't work.

> P.S Now I have installed RiscBSD and all sets again and
> have no problems so far.

Good luck.

Rob