Read the man page on boot.  You will learn that the very first slice of
your NetBSD partition must have a FFS file system on it.

Your current configuration does not comply with NetBSD requirements.

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:53:07PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > >    /usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/biosboot_new.sym /dev/rwd0b
> > 
> > [which didn't install the new bootblocks correctly]
> > 
> > Does wd0b begin at the beginning of the NetBSD MBR partition?  I think
> > it has to for that to work right.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "MBR partition" here.  My hard
> drive is physically partitioned thus:
> 
>   * One big partition spanning the whole drive.
>     * Inside that parition, the NetBSD disklabel looks like so:
>       * wd0a - swap
>       * wd0b - ffs, mounted on /