On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 3:02 AM, Harald Bjoroy <mailto:harald@bitcon.no>
wrote:
> > > I have booted MSDOS and done a "fdisk" on the disk, including
> > > formatting, this has gone well, but it doesn't help; NetBSD will not
> > > boot with this disk enabled.
> > > 
> > > I have tried to use the NetBSD install disk to write a new 
> > disklabel to
> > > the disk, but when I try disklabel on wd1 it hangs 
> > immediately, there is
> > > no problems when I do a "disklabel -r wd0".
> > 
> > Make sure that you do not have wd1 entry in you 
> > /etc/fstab while wd1 is hammered, that might cause a problem.
> 
> I haven't gotten to the fstab yet with this disk, since I haven't gotten
> a valid filesystem on it yet.
> 
> > 
> > Did you go into the BIOS and turn off boot sector virus 
> > protection before
> > doing FDISK /MBR  ?  (It will fail without warning you.)
> > 
> 
> There is no BIOS boot-sector virus active, also remember this is wd1,
> not wd0 (which I have installed NetBSD generic on w/o problems).
> 
> I don't know any way to do a fdisk /mbr to the second IDE disk, fdisk
> /mbr will work on the first disk as far as I know.
> 
> I may try to jump the disk as a master and connect only this disk to the
> system to do a fdisk /mbr if you feel that will remove whatever make
> NetBSD freeze.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions!
> 
> Harald.
> 
It might fix the problem. It's a good idea.
BA-
 
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