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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!dvdjns From: dvdjns@netcom.com (David Jones) Subject: Installation Woes Message-ID: <dvdjnsCLtq5A.43n@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:55:57 GMT Lines: 15 I think I have followed the install notes to a t, but I can't seem to boot NetBSD from my IDE drive. I have one 340 meg IDE drive which I partitioned into 2 equal partitions. One partition is a primary DOS partition and the other is an extended partion which I converted to type 0xA5 as specified. The partitions are defined as follows: 1) pridos start side:1 cyl:0 sec:1 end side:15 cyl:331 sec:63 2) 0xA5 start side:0 cyl:332 sec:1 end side:15 cyl:663 sec:63 I told the NetBSD installer the disk geometry and then specified that the NetBSD partition was at sector 334656. The install seemed to go fine until the part where I am supposed to boot from the hard drive. All that happens is that I boot back into DOS. I have used fdisk to set the NetBSD partition as "active" but this had no effect. What's wrong??