Re: 7248 Booting Woes

On 2003.04.26 15:51 Mike Woods wrote:

> Ok, i've finaly got around to installing netBSD/prep on my rs/6000 I
> made the type 65 partition for booting as instructed in the numerous
> mails on this list and i've  written the generic.fs image to it but
> whenever I boot the machine it crashes as soon as it attempts to load
> NetBSD, i've tried 2 different generic.fs images  and no joy.
You have to write the boot floppy image onto the raw disk, i.e. 
/dev/rsd0c, not into the PReP boot partition. Note that writing the 
floppy image to /dev/rsd0c overwrites your MBR partition table. Save 
the output of fdisk into a file, write the floppy image to /dev/rsd0c, 
start fdisk and restore the old partitioning. This works only if the 
PReP boot partition is the first partition on the disk.
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