mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> I tried this again, and it seems i missed an important detail.  I get a
> '3' on the screen right when I press F3 (the netbsd key).  I've now been
> told that this is actually an error from the bootblock.  So time to
> rtfs...

Looks like the problem I've had some time ago:

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Michael Core wrote:                                 
> 
> When I boot my PC I see "F4: NetBSD", hit enter and nothing happends but
> a "3" appears.             

Frederick Bruckman answered:

> Sounds like you didn't run "installboot" over the new drive. You need   
> to do something like                                                    
>
>        cd /usr/mdec                                                    
>        ./installboot biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a                            
                                                                          
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Michael