Subject: Re: Success with Compaq Deskpro XL 566 (AMD AM79C974)
To: Ken Harrenstien <klh@us.oracle.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/31/1999 16:05:43
Ken Harrenstien <klh@us.oracle.com> writes:
> My only remaining problem, and I hesitate to bring this up here because
> (apart from revealing more of my ignorance) I'm not sure whether it's
> Deskpro-specific or not, is getting the BIOS to boot directly from the
> hard drive -- it complains about an invalid partition table.  I
> configured it at install time to be NetBSD-only and the NetBSD "fdisk"
> reports 3 empty partitions with the 4th actively used for NetBSD
> (entire disk except for the first track), with a valid BIOS geometry...

Hmmm.

Try using fdisk(8) to completely re-initialize your MBR. With luck,
you'll be okay.

Perry