Re: PBR is not bootable

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:03:51AM +0200, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> On 22.07-17:36, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > AFAICT I have just performed the same operations on 2 identical disks 
> > (amd64),
> > fdisk -i, fdisk -u ..., fdisk -0a, installboot ...
> > 
> > Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> > ...
> > 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
> >     start 63, size 976773105 (476940 MB, Cyls 0-60801/80/63), Active
> >         PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00)
> 
> I also had this situation yesterday on i386. IIRC, it got 
> fixed by directing the installboot at /dev/rwd0a (instead of rwd0d)

Exactly the way installboot(8) says it should be :-/ Thanks for the clue
and sorry for the noise!

Cheers,

Patrick