Subject: Re: booting woes
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/01/2002 16:03:13
> But after the installation, NetBSD was not able to boot. I got the
> bootselector screen with
> F4: NetBSD
> but when I hit F4 or Enter I just got another line of "F4: NetBSD".

In order for it to do that it must have re-read sector zero.
(the mbr_bootsel emits a v.terse message then loopstops on any error.)

What is in the partition table?
(ie what does fdisk report).

Sounds like you are trying to boot a partition that starts
in sector zero!


	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk