On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 09:23, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 22:42, Jason Mitchell <jmitc...@bigjar.com> wrote: > > > > > The boot blocks determine where the boot menu is displayed. The installboot > > command lets you write new boot blocks which will send the messages to the > > serial port. There should be examples either on this list or on the > > port-amd64 lists ( I’m assuming you are using amd64, otherwise it’s > > port-i386). > > > > If you have trouble then reply — I’m not in front of a NetBSD box right now > > but I will be later. > > I think I did install the correct bootblocks for serial console, > however, I played around with installboot and now I've messed up my > installation and the system is unbootable. Any chance I can recover it > booting from the cd image?
For future reference: I killed two birds with one stone by booting from the cd, escaping to a root shell and reinstalling the bootloader: # fdisk -B ld0 (ld0 is the qemu virtio hard drive). Now the system is bootable again and I can also see the boot menu in console. Happy days! -- Ottavio Caruso
