On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:08 AM, George Harvey wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:14:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Brian <abacos_98@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> After completing the Install with sysinst, at the console prompt I
>> enter
>>
>>>>> B DKA200
>>
>> and I get...
>>
>> ?42 NOSUCHFILE
>> ?06 HLT INST
>>     PC = 00000B51
>>
>> I am assuming that the bootblocks have not been written to the drive?
>> and if not, how is this done manually.
>
> It's different hardware, but the symptoms sound very similar to those
> reported in port-vax/28724 on the netbsd-bugs list a while back. If it
> is the same problem then you do need to manually install the boot
> blocks. Boot the install kernel, then from a shell prompt try:
>
> disklabel -B sd0  (assuming you have installed the system on /dev/sd0)

no.  Use installboot /dev/rsd0c /usr/mdec/sdboot