On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, David Laight wrote:

> > OK, so I should ask where to get an iso of this disk. I've been using
> > boot floppies (from the latest snapshot available on ftp.netbsd.org) and
> > things are, well, odd. I tried to let things install without installing
> > (quit when fetching the install sets) but that didn't work.
>
> Quitting won't, you need somw things that are done later.
> Deselecting all the sets is a better idea.
>
> > I edited the disklabel and ran fdisk by hand and still I get:
> >
> > Error 3
>
> That means there isn't any boot code in the first sector of the partition.
> You need to run 'installboot /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 /dev/rwd0a',
> and probably 'cp /usr/mdec/biosboot /boot'.
>
> > I can boot into Win98, but not netbsd. I'm attaching my disklabel and
> > fdisk info. Perhaps someone can point out where I'm screwing up?
>
> Including the fdisk output of my disk?

Heh. Did I find the fdisk example output instead of my actual fdisk
backup? I thought about that as I went to sleep last night.


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