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MBR boot failure

To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: MBR boot failure
From: Timothy Power <timothy.power@bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:27:33 +0800
Reply-to: timothy.power@bigfoot.com
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
Hi, I've installed OpenBSD 2 or 3 times now on one of my machines as the MBR 
failes to boot... I've tried booting from another HD that doesn't work as the 
BIOS won't allow it?

Anyway I've select pretty standard options, OpenBSD has the entire disk... then 
slice it up quite normally.  I get this message when it boots:
Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3

and then it hangs.

I can put the install floppy back in and at the boot prompt type, boot 
wd0a:/bsd and it boots up happily.

What is wrong?

I do not have this problem on 2 other machines that run OpenBSD.   The machine 
previously had Windows NT on it and booted up fine.

Tim
--Tim

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