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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!wbecker From: wbecker@expert.cc.purdue.edu (William Becker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: NetBSD problem: Doesn't find root partition Date: 5 Sep 1995 02:10:36 GMT Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 14 Message-ID: <42gbis$bf3@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: expert.cc.purdue.edu After being very impressed with the performance of NetBSD on my machine, I decided to help a friend install it on his. Unfortunately we ran into quite a snag. If we boot up NetBSD from floppy everything runs ok, but if we boot it from the hard disk, the boot manager program never finds the root partition.. it just kinda sits there and stares at you. If we boot from floppy, we can mount /dev/wd0a into /mnt with no problem and seee that all of the files are there and intact. Has anyone else had this sort of problem? Wierd thing was if we put this same hard disk into my machine it works great. *ack* Just for info his system is a 486DX2 with a Promise EIDE disk controller. He previously was running Linux on it with no problems at all.