On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Steve Bellovin wrote:

> After the failure, I rebooted the installation CD and went through the
> installboot procedure again, even though it looks like it was done
> correctly.  More precisely, I did
>
> 	mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
> 	cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
> 	installboot -v /dev/sd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1

I would try...

1) reinstalling to the raw device, rather than the block device,
to make sure that it gets written to disk correctly.

2) updating the MBR bootcode, with "fdisk -i /dev/rsd0d".

Frederick