On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:00:18PM +0200, hubert@feyrer.de wrote:
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> [Please CC: me on replies as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks!]
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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?

What does your disklabel looks like ?
I've see this when I didn't have the start of the 'a' partition matching
the start of the NetBSD partition in fdisk.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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