Having successfully upgraded to 1.6ZH (as of a couple days ago), I
figured I would be brave and update my boot blocks, too.  They had
not been updated in at least two or three years!

So, grovelling through man pages, I figured out that I should do:

1. fdisk -c /usr/mdec/mbr sd0
2. cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot
3. installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2

Well, I tried to reboot the machine.

As far as I can tell, step 1 worked because it didn't try to boot from
floppy.  And I'm pretty sure step 2 worked because it identified itself
as bootxx_ffsv2.  But step 3 apparently failed because it couldn't find
/boot

I don't understand this, since the file is obviously there when I do a
ls -l /boot it tells me the file is 53564 bytes long.

I was able to recover by booting an antique (1.3? 1.4?) install floppy
and then interrupting the timeout and telling it to boot hd0a:netbsd.

But I would really like to fix up my hard drive so I don't have to keep
a floppy around.

Where did I go wrong?  And can I fix it?

Thanks again for any clues.


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