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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!csd.unb.ca!news.ucs.mun.ca!kilo.engr.mun.ca!matthew From: matthew@kilo.engr.mun.ca (Matthew Newhook) Subject: Trouble installing netbsd-0.9 Message-ID: <matthew.746407576@femto.engr.mun.ca> Sender: usenet@news.ucs.mun.ca (NNTP server account) Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 23:26:16 GMT Lines: 14 I'm having trouble installing netbsd-0.9. It doesn't appear to be writing a valid boot block to the harddisk. Reading over the faq it appears that most problems of this nature are related to the disk geometry. However, I don't think that my disk does fool with the geometry, so what other things can cause this problem. If I make the partition active missing operating system is reported... I have tried marking the partition as 165, and loading in booteasy (which refuses to boot the partition). I have used 386bsd before on this disk... Any ideas? Matthew -- Matthew Newhook (matthew@engr.mun.ca) | "...get on with the fascination Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | the real relation, the underlying Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada | theme" - Limelight, Rush