>From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
> Yes, I know this .... but the most common thing that clobbers the MBR
> is disklabel.  And the most common reason disklabel does this is the
> NetBSD partition in the MS-DOS partition table does not match the location
> of the "c" partition in disklabel.  _And_ the most common cause of this
> is confusion about translated geometry.

I had not thought of this before.  If the offset of the c paritition is
0 then writing the boot will clobber the mbr.  Maybe disklabel should
insist that the offset must be > 0.