Subject: Re: oddities
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/31/2002 20:40:06
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:44:12AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I just installed 2 NetBSD-current boxes last night. Each had/has a different
> oddity - both are running a GENERIC kernel (rev 1.492):
> 
> after a sysinst, there was no /usr/lib/libm387.so.0 -> libm387.so.0.0 link
> in /usr/lib. (strange is it worked on "the second one")
> 
> One box would not boot with "partition table invalid" after an fdisk -i, but
> work fine with an fdisk -B. Is it possible that there is a problem with
> /usr/mdec/mbr and not mbr_bootsel? Fixed the problem by disklabeling with
> /dev/wd0a offset of 0 rather than 63 ie., no mbr.. (strange as it worked on
> "the first one")

Maybe there was no active partition ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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