Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/01/2006 09:38:55
David Laight wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:33:51AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
>>> Rerun installboot(8)
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>> Now I get:
>>
>> Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot.
>
> Ok so that fixed the first problem...
>
>> If I mount /dev/wd0a on /mnt I can see /mnt/boot. Copying a fresh copy
>> of /usr/mdec/boot over to /mnt/boot does not change anything.
>>
>> Any idea what may be wrong and how to fix it ?
>
> I suspect you've created a non-standard layout....
> The code tries quite hard to locate /boot, but you are allowed to shoot
> yourself in the foot :-)
>
> Can you send the layout part of the output of 'fdisk wd0' and 'disklabel wd0' ?
>
> David
>
fdisk:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
start 63, size 145226049
others unused
disklabel:
a: 525168 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 43768
b: 2097648 525231 swap
c: 145226049 63
d: 145226112 0
e: 20972448 2622879 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28096
f: 2097648 23595327 4.2BSD 2048 16384 21872
g:119533137 25692975 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28738
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