In message <Pine.NEB.4.58.0403251049430.29819@rapture.immanent.net>, Frederick 
Bruckman writes:
>On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
>> After the failure, I rebooted the installation CD and went through the
>> installboot procedure again, even though it looks like it was done
>> correctly.  More precisely, I did
>>
>> 	mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
>> 	cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
>> 	installboot -v /dev/sd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
>
>I would try...
>
>1) reinstalling to the raw device, rather than the block device,
>to make sure that it gets written to disk correctly.

That did the trick.  I had done sync's after the first attempt; no idea 
why that didn't do it.  But it's booting now -- thanks.
>
>2) updating the MBR bootcode, with "fdisk -i /dev/rsd0d".
>
I haven't tried that yet -- and probably won't, since I'm now on the 
air...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb