On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 05:43:24PM +0100, baldyeti wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have recently installed NetBSD 2.0 on a celeron 400
> machine. The OS lives in a 1 Gb primary partition,
> and was working fine afaict. While trying to restore
> the NT boot sequence on this system (using the win2000
> recovery console), I made the mistake of running
> "fixboot" without argument, which apparently overwrote
> the boot sector of either the 1st or the active primary
> partition, which was the NetBSD one. Now if I mark that
> partition as active, all I get is a complain about ntldr
> not being present. I am wondering if there's an easy way
> using the install boot floppy to restore just the boot
> sector without completely re-installing.

There are many ways... including:

Boot the install CD, but press the space bar during the 10 second countdown.
Type 'boot hd0a:' to boot the system.
The run '/sbin/installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1'.

Or run through sysinst's install option, but deselect all the sets.

Or exit sysinst, mount /dev/wd0a, chroot into it and run installboot.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk