According to Paul Hoffman:
>
>Why didn't the first installs overwrite LILO or what was left of it after 
>"lilo -u"?

Because, unlike some commercial pseudo-OS's we could name, NetBSD does
not assume that it is the only thing installed on the box.  In this
context, byte blasting a previous boot manager is rude.

> Can this be fixed for future NetBSD releases?
>

I am not 100% sure but I think that this is fixed, giving you the
option of totally overwriting a boot block - don't quote me on that
though ;-)

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