On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:15:24PM -0500, Terry Butman wrote:
> I have attempted to install NetBSD onto a dual pentium computer with an
> internal scsi interface.
> 
> I have tried several different hard drives with the same results.
> 
> the installation proceeds normally until it's time to re-boot
> 
> after re-booting the screen shows invalid partition table and halts
> 
> The pci scsi bios identifies the following devices
> 
> PCI SCSI BIOS
> 
> ID00 Connor CFP1080S
> ID05 Toshiba CD-ROM XM-3601TA
> ID06 Archive Viper 150 21531
> 
> the connor hard drive is the latest, but I have tried several others with
> the same results.
> 
> all of the hard drives will format and boot correctly under ms-dos 6.22
> 
> I was hoping you might offer a suggestion or two.

This may be a geometry problem. Format the drive for MSDOS, and then under
NetBSD don't say wou want to use the whole disk, but instead use the
partition editor to change the msdos partition type to NetBSD (and eventually
enlarge it).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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