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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 Boot Hang....
Date: 28 Nov 1994 16:36:15 GMT
Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris
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In article <3bct3b$oe0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Bryan Strawser) writes:
> 
>     NetBSD & BIOS report disk geometry as 980/10/17/512.  I enter this,
>     and install kernel onto wd0a.  No problems.  When I boot from the hard
>     drive, I get the NetBSD boot prompt, i enter wd(0,a)/netbsd, and it
>     hangs.

Try hd(0,a)/netbsd. NetBSD loader's uses the bios to load the kernel, so
it doesn't know about wd or sd, it just knows hd(0,?) and hd(1,?). 
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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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