Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:35:05PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> On 2014-09-25 14:15, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:56:32AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> >>>>it says something along the lines of "disk busy, can't be used".
> >>>
> >>>This helps a bit (the exact error message would be better).
> >>>Are your trying to install NetBSD current, or a release ?
> >>
> >>i am trying to install netbsd 6.1.4 amd64 via a cd.
> >
> >Strange; the "disk busy" could be a known problem with recent -current,
> >but for 6.1.4 I can't see what it could be.
> >What is the output of 'fdisk wd0' and 'disklabel wd0' ?
> 
> `fdisk wd0` output below.
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 969021, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 976773168
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 976773168
> 
> Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: GPT Protective MBR (sysid 238)
>     start 1, size 976773167 (476940 MB, Cyls 0/0/2-60801/80/63)
>         PBR is not  bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
> No active partition.
> 
> 
> `disklabel wd0` output below.
> # /dev/rwd0d:
> type: ESDI
> disk: WDC WD5000AAKX-6
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 969021
> total sectors: 976773168
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0          # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 5 partitions:
> #        size    offset    fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  d: 976773168         0    unused      0     0        # (Cyl.     0 -
> 969020)
>  e: 976773167         1   unknown                     # (Cyl.     0*-
> 969020)
> disklabel: boot block size 0
> disklabel: super block size 0
> 
> 
> well, that's all i got from the two commands you'd suggested.
> 
> i got them by dropping into the shell through the install menu.

What this says is that your disk has no NetBSD partition. What did you
tell sysinst to do about partitionning ?

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