On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:18:03PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > As a result of making a computer a windoze free zone, NetBSD starts at the
> > beginning of a disk with wd1h rather than wd1a. I have installed biosboot.sym
> > at wd1h, but now of course the bootblocks look by default for wd1h:netbsd
> > rather than wd1a:netbsd. Is there a way of teaching them were to look by
> > default?
> 
> The netbsd root filesystem has to be at the start of the bios partition
> that you boot from, otherwise things just don't work!

This is odd: I can boot - it's currently building X, the only thing I had
to do was type "wd1a:netbsd" at the boot prompt as it was looking for
wd1h - must dash now, so more tomorrow...

Cheers,

Patrick

windisk:\
        :dt=ESDI:se#512:ns#63:nt#16:sc#1008:nc#16383:\
        :su#19931184:\
        :pa#409600:oa#9960300:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
        :pb#204800:ob#10369900:tb=swap:\
        :pc#19920600:oc#0:\
        :pd#19931184:od#0:\
        :pe#409600:oe#10574700:te=4.2BSD:be#8192:fe#1024:\
        :pf#6291456:of#10984300:tf=4.2BSD:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
        :pg#2644844:og#17275756:tg=4.2BSD:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
        :ph#9960300:oh#0:th=4.2BSD:bh#8192:fh#1024:

win# fdisk wd1
Disk: /dev/rwd1d
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 19931184

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 19920600

Partition table:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: NetBSD (sysid 169)
    start 0, size 16 (0 MB, Cyls 0-0/0/17), Active