In article <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701271956490.71660@localhost>, Marco Beishuizen <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to install NetBSD/i386 on an old laptop (entire disk for >NetBSD). After partitioning the installboot command fails with: > >installboot: Old BPB too big, use -f (may invalidate filesystem) >installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed > >How to go from here? Installation is possible but after that the disk >doesn't boot. I tried fdisk -i and fdisk -B, but without any effect. >
Can you try zeroing out the beginning of the disk manually from the shell? like: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=10 christos
