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Re: my laptop is still losing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 9 19:30:35 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 19:23:53 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 19:30:26 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> [the machine took about half a day to boot]
"Oops." I can't personally really help you with kernel problems.
> wd0: no disk label
Expected. (It's a kernel message, so we can't suppress it in the
install script.)
> Didn't find any NetBSD partitions or blocks of free sectors. You must
> free up some space on your hard disk before installing.
Well, this can happen. If at this point you run "fdisk wd0", you can
look at your MBR and see if you agree with the install script. If you
don't agree, tell us what numbers "fdisk -S" reports (omit the
variable names if you want; we can figure out the order) and we'll see
if we also disagree.
