>>>>> "Dale" == Dale Phillips <dp@lore.org> writes:

Dale> Do you have an active partition set?

Yep.

Dale>  man fdisk

Already done that.

Dale> fdisk -a (will set active partiton) (usally this says NO OS or
Dale> the like)

Okay, this is where it gets weird.  I just booted the machine (from
floppy), and ran fdisk.  It said that partition 3, where NetBSD is,
had a flag of 0x80, which I understand to be "active."  But, just for
the heck of it, I ran "fdisk -a", and I set partition 3 to active.
The output of fdisk, before it wrote the new table, looked identical
to what it showed previous to the "fdisk -a".  But, now it boots from
the hard drive.

What did I miss?

Chris

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