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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can NetBSD work without disklabel?
Date: 10 Sep 1993 03:47:48 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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NetBSD doesn't work on my system. disklabel wd0 instead of (or maybe
in addition to) writing a label makes the system unbootable. (Note I
said the _system_: I can't even boot from floppy.) I verified this by
reformatting the disk so it would boot and running disklabel from a
single user shell after booting from floppy.
The controller appears to be upset about the disk geometry in the label,
but I've made several independent checks of the disk geometry and they
all come out the same.
Is there any way to run without disklabel?
Is this related to the "extra interrupt" message I get?
Should I just give up on BSD?
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John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)