On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:57:33PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Thu, January 21, 1999 at 16:05:33 (-0800), R. C. Dowdeswell wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: installed, but can't boot 
> >
> > The solution that I found was:
> >  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=64k count=256
> > The count is probably a lot higher than I need, but it worked.
> 
> That would be a good first step for the install program to perform if
> you've told it you'll be using the entire disk for NetBSD....

Maybe the install program could ask whether to overwrite the existing
boot code or not?  We (well, this guy in Helsinki) installed NetBSD
1.3.3 on a 1.2 system about 5 times before I told him to wipe off the
first few MB's of the disk using dd (which helped, of course).

  -jm