Re: installboot command failed

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701271956490.71660@localhost>,
Marco Beishuizen  <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to install NetBSD/i386 on an old laptop (entire disk for 
>NetBSD). After partitioning the installboot command fails with:
>
>installboot: Old BPB too big, use -f (may invalidate filesystem)
>installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
>
>How to go from here? Installation is possible but after that the disk 
>doesn't boot. I tried fdisk -i and fdisk -B, but without any effect.
>

Can you try zeroing out the beginning of the disk manually from the
shell?

like:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=10

christos