Re: GPT boot, again

[Dima Veselov <kab00m%lich.phys.spbu.ru@localhost>]

> I understand NetBSD EFI bootstrap does not support multiboot, so I
> should use BIOS boot.
>
> I installed /boot, ran installboot and gpt biosboot. Here is fdisk
> output for the disk:

What flags installboot was used with?

> Partition table:
> 0: GPT Protective MBR (sysid 238)
>      start 1, size 4294967295 (2097152 MB, Cyls 0-267349/89/4), Active
>          PBR is not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
> First active partition: 0
>
> And if I hexdump the disk block 0, I see the strings of a bootstrap
> present.
>
> But the BIOS will not consider the disk for booting. I made it the first
> priority, but it just skips to the next one.
>
> I wonder if "PBR is not bootable: Bad magic number" may be at fault
> here. Any idea?

It is not a fault. All of them look like yours. It even able not to be 
active.