> In article <200509200152.j8K1qg105812@pimin.rockhead.com>,
> 	Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com> writes:
>
> Are you seeing the boot menu? I'm guessing no...

Nope!

> > After rebooting from the install floppy and interrupting the boot
> > and selecting the hard disk it comes up.
> 
> The MBR code is only the first step. Check out installboot(8),
> especially the first NetBSD/i386 example.

This one works

installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1

Thanks,
Paul