On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:37:00 am John R. Shannon wrote:
> Following an installation, from CD, where I selected the option to update
> the MBR,  the computer won't boot and displays an Operating System Not
> Found message.
>
> fdisk -v sd0 shows:
>
> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     start 12, size 71687360 (35004 MB, Cyls 0/1/5-746743/5/4), Active
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head  11, sector  8
>         PBR is not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)>
>
> Running :
>
> installboot -v /dev/rsd0d /boot/bootxx_ffsv1

That was:

# installboot -v /dev/rsd0d /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
File system:         /dev/rsd0d
Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
Preserving 51 (0x33) bytes of the BPB
Boot options:        timeout 5, flags 0, speed 9600, ioaddr 0, console pc


> The computer was running NetBSD prior to the re-installation.
>
> Suggestions?



-- 
John R. Shannon