>
> A couple of possibilities:
>
> 1) The 'root' filesystem must be at the beginning of the NetBSD (bios)
>    partition.
> 2) fdisk may have used the wrong disk geometry - the CHS values must
>    match those for the BIOS interface, not those of the native disk.
> 3) The NetBSD partition could be above the CHS limit and your BIOS
>    doesn't support LBA reads
> 4) User error - /usr/mdec/installboot hasn't written the loader to
>    the correct place - the first sector of hd0a should end 55 aa.
>    (eg # hexdump -C -n512 /dev/rwd0a)

I can reproduce this effect at will:

- Install NetBSD from floppies onto a new hard drive.  It's important to
keep version compatability because of what happens next.

- Install the old hard drive onto the the secondary controller.  Mount it
to /mnt.  The system boots just fine.

- cd to /mnt.  Then do 'find . | cpio -pdmuv /'.  Reboot.  No Joy.

Maybe that helps?

Dave


>
> 	David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk


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Dave Burgess
CTO and Chief Engineer, Nebraska On-Ramp
Bellevue, NE 68123