smb@research.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
> Any suggestions on what I should do to get it working?

When I had unbootable disks under netbsd I found it useful to dd over
the first track of the disk and start again.  For a while (and perhaps
still???) fdisk and friends didn't correctly initialize a disk that
looked like it might be being shared between two OS's.

I've only done this dd when rebuilding a disk from scratch
(eg. followed directly by fdisk/disklabel/newfs/tar) so I've never
tested a mode where it just clobbers the first 64 sectors and keeps
all the fdisk partition 1 data.  I normally just nuke a megabyte or
two.

(As an aside, I think the only netbsd I installed from an install disk
was 1.2.  All the rest were clones (grafts ???) from that original
disk.)

-wolfgang
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