David Laight wrote:
> 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
> 

Now I get:

Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot.

If I mount /dev/wd0a on /mnt I can see /mnt/boot. Copying a fresh copy 
of /usr/mdec/boot over to /mnt/boot does not change anything.

Any idea what may be wrong and how to fix it ?

-- 
John R. Shannon, CISSP
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