On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:34:26AM -0700, Nenad Crnko wrote:
> 
> We have missed the opportunity to get the content from wd1 mbr when
> your system still failed to boot. It would have been useful to get it
> like so:
>   # dd if=/dev/wd1d of=/tmp/funny_mbr count=1
> or
>   # dd if=/dev/wd0d count=1 | hexdump -C
> 
> It seems that for some reason the sector lost its MBR_MAGIC during
> or after installation. If there is a bug in sysinst and you would
> like to help tracking it down, you would probably have to repeat your
> ordeal a few times to find out and document how to reliably reproduce
> the problem.

There is a known bug in installboot that causes it to copy the first
8k of the disk to the start of the partition.
This might be the cause.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk