Subject: Re: my problem installing 1.4
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/05/1999 15:37:11
In article <Pine.NEB.4.05.9906042231200.21099-100000@antares.csxxi.sepc.edu.mx> gallegos@csxxi.sepc.edu.mx (Heron GALLEGOS) writes:
>>   This sounds like new bootstrap code needs to be written to your hard
>> disk check out the man pages for "disklabel" check out the -B option
>> thats the one you will need. Did you install a new disklabel when you
>> installed bsd or did the hard drive already have a disklabel on it? .
>> whatever you do use caution !! as you could wipe out your disk!!
>
>Thanks, Dave... I will try disklabel -B etc....

guys, disklabel -B is not the way to do things on 1.4. Since we've moved to
a two stage boot process, we now use /usr/mdec/installboot. But the invalid
partition table message can come from bad fdisk partitions too. What does
fdisk and disklabel -r say for your disk?

christos