Re: replace boot blocks on Soekris 4801

David Laight <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:13:56AM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 
> 	The new bootblocks don't work.  They don't boot any kernels -- generic,
> install, 2.0 -- on my box.  

At what point, and with what error message (if any) do they fail ?

The stupendous logic in disklabel (now deleted in current) had a habit
ob overwriting the beginning of the partition (usually with the beginning
of the disk) and deleting the boot code...
If so installboot would fix it.

	David

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