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Ian Clark
Aug 3, 2011, 6:22:51 AM8/3/11
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On 31 July 2011 04:55, Dan McMahill <dmcm...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> I just did a fresh install from a -current (as of a few days ago) cd
> created from one of the releng autobuilds. Booting the cd went fine,
> the install went fine, nothing looked out of the ordinary. I used the
> entire hard drive which was brand new, never been written to. Told
> sysinst to use the whole drive. Got to the end and when I rebooted
> without the CD in, I get as far as the primary bootstrap but then it fails.
>
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> I just did a fresh install from a -current (as of a few days ago) cd
> created from one of the releng autobuilds. Booting the cd went fine,
> the install went fine, nothing looked out of the ordinary. I used the
> entire hard drive which was brand new, never been written to. Told
> sysinst to use the whole drive. Got to the end and when I rebooted
> without the CD in, I get as far as the primary bootstrap but then it fails.
>
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Have you tried using an older bootloader, maybe from 5.0?
I upgraded to a current bootloader recently and was nolonger able to boot.
http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.netbsd.users/browse_thread/thread/fa100c2fc4cd3502
is the issue I had, it does sound similar.
Cheers,
Ian
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