On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:08:29PM -0400, Lili Wang wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>  Now the problem is that NetBSD can not be booted. 
>  Here is the situation. I want to install NetBSD/i386
> on a remote machine. FreeBSD is installed on the first
> partition ad0s1 and linux is installed on the second partition ad0s2. I have access to serial control to the machine and can reload the system and reboot the machine even when the system is crashed. Also I can remotely log in to that machine. But I have no assistance from the local person. So I can not use bootable floppy to install NetBSD. 

You may want to try dd'ing the boot-big.fs to your ad0s2 partition.
Hum, this one won't probably use the serial console by default.
Unforunably there's no boot-big built with serial boot block.

>    Like suggested, I have disklabeled,  newfs the partition ad0s2, untared the binary sets from ftp and mounted it on /mnt. I used "fdisk -B -b /mnt/usr/mbr ad0" to install the boot code. When I chose to boot the system
> from partition 2 , the boot process stalled. I guess
> that I need to rebuild the first sector of the NetBSD partition(ad0s2). Does anyone know how to do that.
> I really appreciate it if you could help.

This may try to install grub to load the kernel; this should work too.

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