Re: new qemu installations missing bootblocks

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

On Tue Aug 24 2010 at 17:31:07 +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> 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?

And running sysinst by hand does not show result in any errors, but the
image is still unbootable after installation ...