Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/2006 06:23:15
John R. Shannon wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:38:55AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Provided 'a' is '/' that all looks horribly boring.
>>
>> Did you request FFSv2 ? If so you need the correct bootxx program.
>>
>> David
>>
>
> a is / and it's FFSv1
>
>
I also can't boot hd0a:netbsd from the bootloader on an installation cd,
although, if I mount /dev/wd0a /mnt, everything appears to be there.
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John R. Shannon, CISSP
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