In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9907101117540.8656-100000@tiberius.cs.umn.edu>,
Paul B Dokas <dokas@cs.umn.edu> wrote:
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>So my question is, what did I do wrong?  I did not change the disklabel.
>I (think) that I didn't touch the MBR.  All that I did was run installboot.

I don't think that you did anything wrong. It might be a bug in
the boot blocks.  Try going to the 1.4 boot blocks, and then try
to build an installation floppy with the current boot blocks to
see if that works...

christos