Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/31/2006 21:40:52
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:24:24PM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> Supermicro P8SGA
> WD SATA disk
> P4
> 
> After a fresh full install of netbsd-3 from the daily snapshots for 
> ix86, I get:
> 
> NetBSD MBR boot
> Error No Operating System
> 
> If I boot from an installation CD and mount /dev/wd0a the root partition 
> contains everything expected including netbsd.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Well, the error indicates that the first sector of the mbr partition
doesn't contian the partition boot code.

Rerun installboot(8)

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk