On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:47:48PM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote:
> On 16/01/2008, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:24:43PM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote:
> > > > Not sure why you need this. But it you change device.map I suspect you need
> > > > to rerun grub-installl
> > > >
> > >
> > > Manuel,
> > >
> > > I modified the /grub/device.map because I got a:
> > > /dev/wd0d does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> >
> > This is strange, I never had this message. What hardware is it ?
> 
> I am trying to install NetBSD Xen Dom0 an a VMware virtual machine; if
> everything goes ok, I will move to my real.

Hum, maybe it's wmware's bios that does some funny things.

> 
> > > and after, run:
> > >   grub-install --no-floppy /dev/wd0d
> > >
> > > and I got the same error again:
> > >   The file /grub/stage1 not read correctly.
> >
> > Does  /grub/stage1 exists ? If not maybe it can be copied from
> > /usr/pkg/lib/grub/i386-/
> 
> /grub/stage1 exists and it is exactly equal to /usr/pkg/lib/grub/i386-/stage1.

It may be a geometry issue then, or something related to geometry.
How did you setup NetBSD ? Is / a ffsv1 of size small enough ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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