Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/2006 06:23:15
John R. Shannon wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:38:55AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
>>> fdisk:
>>> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>>>    start 63, size 145226049
>>> others unused
>>>
>>> disklabel:
>>> a: 525168          63   4.2BSD    1024   8192 43768
>>> b: 2097648     525231   swap
>>> c: 145226049       63
>>> d: 145226112        0
>>> e: 20972448   2622879   4.2BSD    2048 16384 28096
>>> f:  2097648  23595327   4.2BSD    2048 16384 21872
>>> g:119533137  25692975   4.2BSD    2048 16384 28738
>>
>> Provided 'a' is '/' that all looks horribly boring.
>>
>> Did you request FFSv2 ? If so you need the correct bootxx program.
>>
>>     David
>>
> 
> a is / and it's FFSv1
> 
> 

I also can't boot hd0a:netbsd from the bootloader on an installation cd, 
although, if I mount /dev/wd0a /mnt, everything appears to be there.


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