Maybe the only thing you missed was the down arrow to
partion 3 during sysinst ;-) 

But you have it working now ...


Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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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> Chris Jones                                          cjones@honors.montana.edu
>            Mad scientist at large
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