>>When I do a "disklabel -B ...", I can boot NetBSD just fine, but it
>>toasts the DOS parition table.  If I boot a DOS floppy and run fdisk
>>after that, it just gives me garbage partition data.

>>My concern is: where does disklable put the boot blocks?  And, where
>>should it be putting them?  Should I maybe start the whole disk in the
>>disklabel at sector one instead of zero, or at cylinder one, instead
>>of zero?  I dunno...

>Hmmmmmmmm ... when you use disklabel -B, do you say "/dev/rsd0c", or
>"/dev/rsd0d"?  What _should_ happen is that the boot blocks should get put
>at the beginning of the NetBSD part of the disk.  If you use /dev/rsd0d,
>it _might_ put them at the beginning of the whole disk.  That would explain
>the problems you're seeing.

Ah!  Very insightful point.  I was using "disklabel -B ... wd0",
which, I believe, defaults to /dev/rwd0d.

I'll try the explicite /dev/rwd0c.  I'll bet that's the answer.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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