On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:16:52PM -0600, David Burgess wrote:
> >
> > A couple of possibilities:
> >
> > 1) The 'root' filesystem must be at the beginning of the NetBSD (bios)
> >    partition.
> > 2) fdisk may have used the wrong disk geometry - the CHS values must
> >    match those for the BIOS interface, not those of the native disk.
> > 3) The NetBSD partition could be above the CHS limit and your BIOS
> >    doesn't support LBA reads
> > 4) User error - /usr/mdec/installboot hasn't written the loader to
> >    the correct place - the first sector of hd0a should end 55 aa.
> >    (eg # hexdump -C -n512 /dev/rwd0a)
> 
> I can reproduce this effect at will:
> 
> - Install NetBSD from floppies onto a new hard drive.  It's important to
> keep version compatability because of what happens next.
> 
> - Install the old hard drive onto the the secondary controller.  Mount it
> to /mnt.  The system boots just fine.
> 
> - cd to /mnt.  Then do 'find . | cpio -pdmuv /'.  Reboot.  No Joy.
> 
> Maybe that helps?

OK, so you overwrote /boot. This is the problem.
Either do
find . \! -path ./boot | cpio -pdmuv /
or rerun installboot after the copy.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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