Subject: Re: "No operating system".
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/05/2001 23:38:04
> Subject: "No operating system".
>
> So, I am trying to install NetBSD on an old SCSI drive, attached via a
> Symbios card.  Install goes fine.  On reboot, "no operating system".  If
> I run the utility shell and to "fdisk -B", I get the boot-loader menu...
> and then "3", meaning "no operating system".

do /usr/mdec/installboot -v /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rsd0a


> There's an FDISK table, with one entry (the NetBSD partition) filling the
> disk, and NetBSD is in it and flagged active.  What else should I be looking
> for?  The machine does have an IDE disk, but I've disabled it in the BIOS
> for now.  Eventually, I want to boot from the SCSI drive and use the IDE
> drive for scratch space.
>
> 1.5.1, and I've used this CD to install other systems with no problems.  The
> Symbios card is an old Diamond "Fireport 40".  (3C875J)
>
> -s
>