Re: port-i386/60540: Netbsd 11 dosboot.com in ufs mode - not working

"Martin Husemann via gnats" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The following reply was made to PR port-i386/60540; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: port-i386/60540: Netbsd 11 dosboot.com in ufs mode - not working
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 10:48:47 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 10:10:01PM +0000, [email protected] via gnats wrote:
 > system is 486dx4-100, IDE VLB controller
 
 Are you sure DOS can see the drives attached to the IDE VLB controller?
 If not, that would explain the symptoms.
 
 Other details that could make it fail is a missing / wrong MBR on the disk
 you are trying to boot from. Output of fidsk and disklabel would be
 helpfull.
 
 Martin
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