On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Eventually I decided it would be easiest to start fresh on another disk,
> so I attched both the non-fdisk'ed disk, and a supposedly blank disk, to
> my -current machine and proceeded to fdisk, disklabel, newfs, and then
> transfer the filesystems.  Unfortunately the new disk still wouldn't
> boot!  It turned out that sector zero did not contain the string "Author
> - Siegmar Schmidt", i.e. had old code in it.  I ended up having to dd
> sector zero from my -current system onto the new disk and re-run fdisk
> to clean up the DOS partitioning.

Did you run installboot? That's the final step if you're doing it all
by hand.

> The damn PC BIOS sucks so badly that I can't even begin to express it in
> words.  It always has, even in the original PC, and even after it was
> "improved" and extended in the AT -- perhaps even more so.

What he said.