Re: new qemu installations missing bootblocks

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Tue Aug 24 2010 at 17:03:41 +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some time ago my anita installs stopped booting.  I thought it was due to
> a corrupt source/object tree, but now I did a completely fresh checkout
> and the same problem persists.
> 
> qemu says:
> NetBSD MBR boot
> Error no operating system
> 
> hexdumping the disk image suggests that only the MBR is there and the
> second stage is missing.  Mounting the image reveals /boot to be missing.
> 
> Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Indeed, after copying /boot to the file system and running installboot
manually I can boot the image.

Does anyone know why sysinst would not install the bootblocks?