> 
> > Bios reported "No operating system"! What had gone wrong - 
> 
> I'm not sure what's going on here. Apparently your (SCSI) BIOS
> does not like the geometry used to create the MBR.
> 
> [...]
>  

I kind of noticed this too, but figured it was a dodgy SCSI controller.

What I ended up doing this morning was booting the system from the
floppy, dumping out of sysint, and relabeling the drive to use the first
track.  I was using the whole drive for the system, and the pfdisk
output showed that I was using the whole disk.  The sysinst disklabel
showed that I was skipping the first track, as if I was sharing the disk
with another OS.  I relabeled the drive to use the first track, newfs'ed
it, and reinstalled.  Everything worked fine.

-- 
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."