> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:38:57PM -0600, David Burgess wrote:
>> I'm having a similar problem on a couple of servers.  Whenever I try
>> to boot, I get a "No Operating System" error.  I know I had an e-mail
>> stuffed away here somewhere that told how to fix it, but I can't find
>> it.  Both of these servers are upgrades from 1.5-current or 1.5.3
>> systems.  After I do the update, I can't boot anymore.
>>
>> Hints?
>
> Hum, I don't know. I've not seen this, but I don't do upgrade via
> sysinst very often either.
> Does fdisk show the correct values for the partitions, BIOS geometry,
> etc ? Is there an active partition ?
>
> "No Operating System" would mean that the bootcode magic number on the
> NetBSD's partition is wrong. Did you try reinstalling the boot code
> (installboot ....) ? Maybe from a 1.5 floppy ?

I can boot from a floppy (break out of the boot and go to hd0:/netbsd) so
(if I'm thinking correctly) the system is pretty close.  The only thing
that seems amiss is the bootcode magic on the partition, which doesn't
really make any sense, since I've tried a dozen combinations of
installboot, fdisk, and everything in /usr/mdec.  The NetBSD partition is
active, and the partitions and BIOS geometry all seem to be correct.

I know there was a list of the commands that sysinst executes to set up
the partition tables.  Do you know where that is?

Dave

>
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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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Dave Burgess
CTO and Chief Engineer, Nebraska On-Ramp
Bellevue, NE 68123