On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> Excerpts from netbsd: 2-Feb-98 AOpen mb won't boot NetBSD Gunnar
> Helliesen@bitcon. (3217*)
> 
> > As long as there is (or has been) NetBSD bootblocks on _any_ HD
> > connected to _either_ IDE controller on either an AP58 or AP5T
> > motherboard it won't boot.
> 
> Do your NetBSD partitions start at the beginning of the disk?
Yes.
> I have 2 boxes which hand in the BIOS HDD probe if the primary
> bootsector is the NetBSD one. Leaving 1 track free and
> installing a generic MBR or os-bs helped.
> I can only guess about the reason, perhaps it tries to care about
> partitioning and falls into a recursion if a partition starts at (0,0,1).
> (It's a "Power BIOS" by either Award or AMI.)



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