Small error in 4.0 macppc. installboot on cdr tries to wirte to wrong slice during fresh install.

[kawayuppie%mac.com@localhost]

Hi,

I noticed during the fresh install of a NetBSD/macppc 4.0 using the macppc.iso 
CDR, Is that the install script tries to write the boot blocks to slice "a" of 
the disk.

e.g the installer script tries to do the the following:

installboot /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot

However this will fail, as slice "a" is protected once setup by disklabel.
The command should actually write to the whole disk. i.e. slice "c".

installboot /dev/rsd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot

To get round the installer issue, once the install was complete, I did not 
reboot straight away, but dropped to shell prompt and run the corrected 
command, i.e.  installboot /dev/rsd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot 

I suppose the install script that does this on macppc ISO needs to be fixed and 
a new image released. Just to protect the unwary! 

Kind Regards,

André

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