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Okay, how 'bout this one.

I have similar symptoms to Anne's (the machine won't boot from the
hard disk after wiping it out and successfully restoring the file
system). I think I used to get a "No operating system" complaint.
Just now, I tried (from a 1.5.2 install floppy) an installboot of
biosboot.sym. Now, when trying to boot from the hard disk, I see:

  F1: NetBSD
  A

=2E.. and then nothing.

My fdisk:

  NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
  cylinders: 6082 heads: 18 sectors/track: 162 (2916 sectors/cylinder)
 =20
  BIOS disk geometry:
  cylinders: 1023 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
 =20
  Partition table:
  0: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
      start 63, size 17796014 (8689 MB), flag 0x80
          beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
          end: cylinder  961, head  17, sector 34
  1: <UNUSED>
  2: <UNUSED>
  3: <UNUSED>

=2E.. and my disklabel:

  # /dev/rsd0d:
  type: unknown
  disk: grappa
  label:=20
  flags:
  bytes/sector: 512
  sectors/track: 162
  tracks/cylinder: 18
  sectors/cylinder: 2916
  cylinders: 6082
  total sectors: 17796077
  rpm: 3600
  interleave: 1
  trackskew: 0
  cylinderskew: 0
  headswitch: 0		# microseconds
  track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
  drivedata: 0=20
 =20
  8 partitions:
  #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
   a:   2099457        63     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 71=
9)
   b:   1049760   2099520       swap                      # (Cyl.  720 - 10=
79)
   c:  17796014        63     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 61=
02*)
   d:  17796077         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 61=
02*)
   e:   9436176   3149280     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1080 - 43=
15)
   f:   4164048  12585456     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 4316 - 57=
43)
   g:   1046573  16749504     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 5744 - 61=
02*)

Note that both my MBR and my disklabel claim that a: starts at
sector 63, unlike Anne's problematic disk.

Any thoughts?

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       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net

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