George Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:00:11 -0700
> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Matt Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>> disklabel -B sd0  (assuming you have installed the system on /dev/ 
>>>> sd0)
>>> no.  Use installboot /dev/rsd0c /usr/mdec/sdboot
>> Sounds like it's time to remove the -B option from disklabel(8).
> 
> Just out of interest, what's the problem with disklabel -B ?

Besides not being present in NetBSD 4.0 and later?  :)

If you were dealing with lots of platforms, each one would need a different
disklabel.  installboot is machine independent and can install the bootblocks
for almost any platform.