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Reinstalling NetBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ray@MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 31 15:29:44 1995
From: ray@MIT.EDU
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:29:20 EDT
Yeah, the new boot floppy I made worked, but
now, booteasy is not working. When I boot,
it displays F1 DOS and F3 NetBSD,
but when I press F3, it doesn't respond.
Also when I press F2, it hangs up.
F1 works fine though. I did accidentally
leave the install disk in after installing, halting
and rebooting, so it began another reinstall, but I
stopped it when it asked me if I wanted to rewrite
over the existing NetBSD partition (which I had just made).
So, I don't think this is affecting booteasy.
I ran bootinst again, and it displayed that the NetBSD
partition could not boot, but the DOS primary partition
could. So, I ran pfdisk and set the NetBSD partition
to be active (is that right?), but when I ran fdisk,
I saw that the DOS partition was not activated, so I
used fdisk to activate the DOS partition. Then, I ran
bootinst again, this time following through with the
installation of booteasy. Now, when I run bootinst,
it still says that the NetBSD partition can't boot.
How can I get it to boot? Has booteasy been revised
recently?
