Subject: Re: Normal .../mdec/mbr boot failure in -current
To: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/12/2004 13:47:43
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:50:22PM +0200, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
| ... after recent mbr.S (now v1.11) changes:
|=20
| I've just updated (fdisk -c /usr/mdec/mbr sd0) this normal mbr on
| several boot disks. Result during booting is now an endless loop of
| displaying:
|=20
| NetBSD MBR boot
| NetBSD MBR boot
| [...]
|=20
| Anybody else sees this?
Yes, on a VMware test system.
Using /usr/mdec/mbr built from August 18 sources works, however.
Please log a PR about this. (I haven't done that yet because I did not
have a chance to test if this failed on a "real" system, just a VMware
emulation. Your mail confirms that it doesn't work on real systems).
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