>> yep.  that's it.  pressing f1 for win98 works fine.  pressing either
>> f2 (for freebsd) or f3 (for netbsd) makes it print a 3 and do nothing
>> else.
>
>Looks like your netbsd (and freebsd) partition doesn't have its
>bootcode setup correctly.

freebsd used to boot.  from it's own boot mangler.

>Could you try "cd /usr/mdec;./installboot biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a"
>and then a reboot?

sure.  that'll be this evening, though...the laptop's at home.  :)

>If this doesn't work, could you send me a dump of the first sector
>of /dev/rwd0d and the first two sectors of /dev/rwd0a (like the
>output of "dd if=/dev/rwd0d count=1|od -x" and
>"dd if=/dev/rwd0a count=2|od -x") (in private mail, please!)?
>I'll try to look into it then.

oohh...feeling tricky, eh?  okay...i'll send them out.  :)

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