Subject: Re: "No operating system"?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/03/2002 19:00:22
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 04:51:11PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> I have a new system which has a SCSI drive in it, and it seems to emit
> "no operating system" whenever an attempt is made to boot from that
> drive. I've tried two controllers, both of which recognize the drive
> and appear to think they've installed a SCSI BIOS. I installed from
> the 1.5ZC snapshot. Booting from the install disk, I see that the
> drive has a well-formed FDISK table and disk label, and I have
> verified that installboot has been run.
is the bootable partition marked active? the BIOS might be ultrapicky
about that...
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