On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:17:18AM -0400, Keith Browne wrote:
> I'm having difficulty getting NetBSD-1.4 to boot on a new 9-gigabyte
> SCSI drive on my Pentium system.  I've been using a 2-gigabyte SCSI
> drive and NetBSD 1.3-BETA for some time now, and that's working fine.
> I'm trying to replace the current drive, as it's much noisier than the
> new one.
> 
> I've reset the SCSI target number of my new drive to 2, which is lower
> than the current boot drive at 3.  I've booted the install floppy and
> stepped through the install procedure, using install sets on a NetBSD
> filesystem on the older 2-gig drive.  When I reboot after
> installation, however, I'm getting the message "No operating system"

When you did the installation, which drive was defined as the bootable one,
The old or the new ? It's quite possible that sysinst used the wrong
geometry when the MBR and DOS partition table got installed (i.e. using
the old disk's BIOS geometry).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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