Subject: Re: trouble booting from tiny installation.
To: Carrie Jones <carrie@cjones.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/29/2002 22:51:44
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:06:23PM -0600, Carrie Jones wrote:

> I can get to everything after I mount it, but am not able to boot it. I
> have included the disklabel I ran on it and the fdisk. It looked fine to
> me, but maybe I'm missing something?

from the floppy try hd1a instead of wd1a.  the "hd" devices are the BIOS
numbers.

my odd random guess is that the partition isn't set active, and so the
BIOS doesn't want to load it.

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