Subject: Re: Bootloader Failure
To: Patrick Lougheed <lougheed@techbc.ca>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2001 22:41:19
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:27:06PM -0800, Patrick Lougheed wrote:
... 
> The install goes fine, and the bootselector is loaded into the MBR - gives
> no errors. As soon as you reboot, the bootselector gives the following
> output:
> 
> F4 bsd
> 
> and a countdown. There's only one OS setup in the bootselector. As the
> countdown ends, the output changes to:
> 
> F4 bsd
> 3
> 
> (3 being the partition number NetBSD is installed on by sysinst) and the
> system hangs.
...
Does the disk have a disklabel and a file called /boot ?

Cheers,

Patrick