On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 02:12PM, Justin Hawkins <justin@hawkins.id.au> wrote:

>I can successfully boot the installation CD, and even install the
>OS. No problems there. But I can't boot what I've installed.

Where did you install NetBSD (SCSI / IDE etc.)?

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>CLAIM failed
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>Also disturbing for me, is that after I try that boot command, a boot
>command which I know should work (like 'boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf') also
>fails, though if I issue a 'reset-all' it works again. This sort of
>failure makes it rather hard for me to try stuff, if any invalid try
>cause all further tries from working.

Once you get a CLAIM failed, hardly anything will work. You _need_ to do a reset-all, before doing anything else. That's the way it is ;)

I don't think creating a MS-DOS partition is the way to go.

Daniel