Subject: Re: booting 1.4.1
To: None <chris@cjones.org>
From: Chris Cowdery <chris@cowdery.demon.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/14/1999 18:36:08
> I just installed 1.4.1 on a new laptop, using the boot.fs floppy. But
> the machine says, "Insert Boot-Disk and press any key" when I reboot
> it. Did sysinst forget to do something?
>
> I can load the bootstrap code off the floppy, and then boot the kernel
> from wd0 from there, FWIW.
>
I seem to recall having a similar problem when I used sysinst. It
turned out to have put the NetBSD partition as the last partition
on the disk. I manually moved it with fdisk and it sprang into
life
HTH,
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