Bill Squier writes:
> Now for the interesting part.  If I do the install "manually", I seem to
> clobber the MBR after "installboot".  Below are the steps:

Hmmm....

Just for laughs, please try the following experiment:

1) Create a one cylinder DOS partition at the front of the disk
2) Make the rest the NetBSD partition
3) "see what happens"... in particular, I'd like to see the entirety
   of all the stuff you presented in that last bug report (which was
   very good and detailed).

Perry