Re: Panic: no console device

[Bob Bernstein <bob%fanatick.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Martin Husemann wrote:

> You can get the latest from the daily builds:
> https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/latest/

As I reported, there was no advance with this iso file over the 
one I first tried. However, I stayed in the nycdn file server 
and had very good luck (system installed, booted, begun 
fine-tuning) with going back to version 7.1.2. But there is a 
wrinkle...

I see from some research that I am not the first (of course! duh 
Bob!) to run afoul this mishap with the boot manager:

Fn: diskn
1. NetBSD

...with nary a hint of my Windows partition on this disk, and 
this even after I went back and reassigned "active" to the 
Windows partition after I had at first given that privilege to 
my new NetBSD partition.

With 'fdisk -B' I edited the boot selector to look like this:

0 The first active partition
1.NetBSD
2.Harddisk 0

...and agreed to write those changes to the MBR, but they never 
appear at boot time, only when I execute 'fdisk -B'.


Thank you.

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