In article <200509200152.j8K1qg105812@pimin.rockhead.com>,
	Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com> writes:
> 
> pimin# fdisk
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 484521, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 488397168
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 268435455
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     start 63, size 488397105 (238475 MB, Cyls 0-30401/81/1), Active
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
> Bootselector enabled, timeout 10 seconds.

That looks good.

> Rebooting produces "Error ?" where I expect the kernel to load.

Are you seeing the boot menu? I'm guessing no...

> 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.

-- 
Frederick