> >Synopsis:       NetBSD can not boot from my hard disk
> 
> Then I did "fdisk -i -c /usr/mdec/mbr wd0" and
> "installboot -v /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a".
> 
> Now I can't get it to boot from hard disk. It says "No operating system."
> 
> 16 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  a:   8200332  12298608     4.2BSD   1024  8192 46448   # (Cyl. 12201 - 20336*)
>  b:   2097333  10201275       swap                      # (Cyl. 10120*- 12200)
>  c:  10297665  10201275     unused      0     0         # (Cyl. 10120*- 20336*)
>  d: 240121728         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 238215)
>  e:  10201212        63      MSDOS                      # (Cyl.    0*- 10120*)
>  f:  10297665  10201275     unused      0     0         # (Cyl. 10120*- 20336*)
>  g: 219608550  20498940     unused      0     0         # (Cyl. 20336*- 238201*)
>  h:  33575787  20499003      MSDOS                      # (Cyl. 20336*- 53645*)
>  i:  33575787  54074853      MSDOS                      # (Cyl. 53645*- 86954)
>  j:  32884992  87650703      MSDOS                      # (Cyl. 86955*- 119579*)
>  k:  78622047 120535758       NTFS                      # (Cyl. 119579*- 197577*)
>  l:  40949622 199157868       NTFS                      # (Cyl. 197577*- 238201*)

> 1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 10201275, size 10297665 (5028 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  635, head   0, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63

The 'root' filesystem has to be at the start of the netbsd partition.


	David

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