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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!epita!freon!villey_n From: villey_n@freon.epita.fr (Nicolas Villey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Booting on sd2: HELP! Date: 18 May 1995 10:52:46 GMT Organization: Epita (French Computer Science school) Lines: 30 Sender: villey_n@freon (nicolas villey) Distribution: world Message-ID: <3pf8tu$n8d@boson.epita.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: freon.epita.fr Last night, I installed NetBSD-1.0 on my third SCSI disk (sd2). No problem during the entire installation process, but when I boot, there is no way I can get to NetBSD: my system keeps booting on my first SCSI disk (DOS installed). There's no boot loader to give a chance to boot NetBSD. I tried booting with the floppy boot disk, and when I got the boot prompt, I tried sd2a sd2a/netbsd sd(2,a)/netbsd hd(2,a)/netbsd ...and a few other ones ;-) but to no avail! I wonder if the installation process wrote the boot loader on the MBR of the third SCSI hard drive (sd2), which would be pretty useless... Any help appreciated! P.S: I was just wondering where the `Extract' and `Set_tmp_dir' used during the installation process come from: I did not find them in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin or / (the default path components...) Thanks a lot in advance. -- serp@epita.fr