>Brrr, one of the hardware components of our mailserver gave up.

ick!

>Got to replace it, anyway, i read your repley on the mailarchive.
>So it seems you configured the bootmanager okay. You didnt change the
>idea of what the bios thinks right? So when you press F3 for netbsd
>you see a 3 and then nothing right? This sound like a problem with an
>incorrect partition table.

i tried it once with it changed and once without.  the results were
the same both times.  win98 boots, the others result in a "3" printed
on the screen.

>Looks to the part where the table thinks the netbsd slice starts isnt
>really the place. I had a very similair problem twice when i was
>playing around with bootmanagers :) I think the problem with booting
>netbsd will be fixed adjusting the partition table in the correct
>way. But first we need to know what it looks like now. Could you send
>the output of "fdisk /dev/rwd0d" ?

sure.

>You can do this after you booted with the bootdisk to netbsd :)

yep.  once i get home...  :)

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