On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.1020803215405.10345A-100000@bitter.mit.edu> you 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...
>
> no, time for mbr(8):
>
>      3             No operating system.  The bootsector was loaded successful-
>                    ly, but it was not valid (i.e.  the magic number check
>                    failed).

So maybe it's the offset thing. Short of rearranging the partitions,
maybe simply adjusting the values in the mbr (with "fdisk") could
trick the stage-1 loader into finding stage-2 at the right place.

Frederick