On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Nick
Holland<n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> MBR problems shouldn't cause the inability to boot
> using a bootloader pulled from floppy (or CD), but the fact the
> system can't boot on its own indicates there's something wrong
> with the installed system, and if that's the case, the floppy boot
> trick may not work as well.
Another datapoint: acting on a hunch, I made a netbsd-5.0 install CD
and put that OS on the SCSI drive. Behaves just fine, and even boots
on its own when I set the machine's boot sequence to SCSI first.
Full disclosure: this drive probably had at some point in time n the
remote past netbsd running on it. I wonder if I need to do a complete
("low-level"?) formatting of the drive to get all netbsd artefacts off
of it?
This isn't the first machine I've found running scsi hardware that
doesn't seem able to install and boot openbsd. :-(
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