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I have a problem reinstalling the NetBSD boot selector on a fesh
(manually) installed disk. I did partition the disk using fdisk, ran
disklabel to create partitions, newfs'd everything and put things on the
disk. I ran installboot (on /dev/rwd0a) to install the bootblock, and
"fdisk -B" to install the boot selector (the disk will get a second
OS somewhen).

Now when I boot up the disk, I get to the boot selector, where I press F2
for NetBSD, all it prints is "3", then stalls. I can still press num-lock
and Ctl-Alt-Del, but it's not booting NetBSD. What is the problem here?


This is what fdisk says:

miyu# fdisk wd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024 heads: 240 sectors/track: 63 (15120 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 12 (Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT - LBA)
    start 63, size 10240000 (5000 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  637, head 105, sector 43
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 10240063, size 28862084 (14092 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder  637, head 105, sector 44
        end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>


I had this problem before and was able to "solve" it using OSBS, but I
think there should be a way without this. What is it?

TIA!


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>