On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I'd like to get rid of the "old BSD partition ID" messages - the old
> sysinst I used set the ID to 0xa5 instead of 0xa9.  So, I used
> /usr/mdec/installboot to copy the newest bootblocks onto the disk, and
> then tried to reboot.  The boot process found the new bootblock, and
> even found /netbsd but as soon as it printed out the first number (size
> of some part of the kernel image?) it displayed the "/" character but
> never "rotated" it to "-", "\", or "|".  It just hung there.
> 
> Now I _know_ I've got absolutely -current biosboot.sym because I just
> rebuilt it from today's sup and then tried again - same results.
> 
> Fortunately, I can repair the damage by booting from my 1.3.2 floppy and
> using the installboot and biosboot.sym files from that.  But what did I
> miss in the above procedure?

You forgot to test the new boot blocks on a floppy, first. :)

Once you succeed in changing the partition id, you won't be able to
simply boot from the 1.3.2 floppy. You'll have to exit to the shell on
the floppy, and change it back. Been there.