NetBSD Problem Report #29122

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From: elapid@sdf.lonestar.org
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Subject: Install completes but system does not boot
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>Number:         29122
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       Install completes but system does not boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 25 22:31:01 +0000 2005
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 31 03:38:42 +0000 2011
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 31 03:38:42 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Mike
>Release:        1.6.2
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
VM8000 laptop.  i386 766MHz Celeron 128MB ram
>Description:
System installs with no problems but locks on boot without any error message, and auto reboots itself.  Tried changing some of the partition parameters, from custom to standard setting to no avail.  System previously had FreeBSD on it with no probs.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/29122: Install completes but system does not boot
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:55:25 +0000

 On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:31:01PM +0000, elapid@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
 > >Number:         29122
 > >Synopsis:       Install completes but system does not boot
 > >Description:
 > System installs with no problems but locks on boot without any error message, and auto reboots itself.  Tried changing some of the partition parameters, from custom to standard setting to no avail.  System previously had FreeBSD on it with no probs.

 This is a probably known bug in disklabel - it has a habit of writeing the
 mbr code to the pbr.

 Boot from the install media, ^C from sysinst, mount wd0a and chroot into it.
 Then rerun installboot.

 	David

 -- 
 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: mrg@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:51:23 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
did this problem go away with disklabel fixes?  thanks.


State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:38:42 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Feedback timeout; also, this problem was common back in 1.6 days or so and
was typically caused by guessing the fake BIOS geometry wrong during install,
so the MBR code would try to load the partition boot code from the wrong
sector. Between BIOS and NetBSD improvements the problem went away a long
time ago.


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