Fabrizio Catalano  (cata003@pn.itnet.it) wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>>Still assuming that's true, try this first please.
>>
>>Boot in 1.3.2, and locate the new 1.4.1 partition - the one which shows up
>>as an ext2fs when it's not. I'll assume it's sdXa below. Use what it
>>really shows up as.
>>
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXa count=1 seek=2
>>
>>The seek=2 says to skip 2 blocks (1 k) into the partition, and the count=1
>>says write just one block.
>>
>>This should then fix things up, and all the install work you've done so
>>far should show up right.
>>
>>Let me know how it goes!
>>
>>Take care,
>>
>>Bill
>
>Yes! now the boot process is complete.
> 

Thanks Fabrizio!  I'll look into updating Mkfs this weekend to make it 
clear out these blocks   when initializing a NetBSD partition.

-bob