On 12/19/07, Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org> wrote:
> I have bought a new disk and want to install it as a bootable disk.
> I have copied the old data with dump/restore. However, I have
> difficulties with getting this disk bootable. I get a very useful
> "error 3" message. I use i386. Where can I find good step by step
> documentation about the fdisk, disklabel, mbrlabel, installboot,
> etc mess? It will be a NetBSD only disk.
>
> Just an example of what drives me mad: disklabel(8) mentions a -B
> flag, but /sbin/disklabel does not understand this flag.
>

I'm looking at man.netbsd.org's disklabel(8) and there is no -B mentioned.

Please check out:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-misc.html#chap-misc-adding-new-disk