Also, installboot -e isn't very well documented.  I didn't see it
mentioned in any of the man pages from netbsd.org, and pxeboot(8)
doesn't exist in the netbsd.org pages.  Maybe they just need to be
updated?

On 1/23/06, matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:
> nbinstallboot -e -oconsole=3Dcom0 -ospeed=3D9600 -m i386 ./pxeboot_ia32.b=
in
> nbinstallboot: Invalid magic in stage1 boostrap
> nbinstallboot: Edit bootstrap operation failed
>
> ---
>
> Firstly, that error code should probably say bootstrap instead of boostra=
p.
>
> Secondly, why does this fail?  I got this pxeboot_ia32.bin from the
> ftp build of base.tgz.
> I am doing this on my mac, but installboot is just modifying a few
> bytes of the file.
>
> _Matt
>