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Old 8th October 2022
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I can't comment about the new installer and any changes that may have been made to its process because I haven't used NetBSD in many years.

But, what I used to do during a manual upgrade included these steps related to boot loading (modify command arguments as appropriate for your situation):

* Copy the new SECONDARY boot loader into the / directory:

% cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot

* Install the new PRIMARY boot loader into the "disklabel area", e.g.,

% installboot -v -o timeout=10 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2

And when the upgrade was complete, I would reboot with LILO (not a grub user either ), which was installed in the MBR. (I don't think it would necessarily have to be there, but obviously it shouldn't be in the NetBSD partition.)

Not sure if this helps, but perhaps you'd want to try to get the new installer to do those steps and no more so that it doesn't wipe out LILO or equivalent. Is this possible with the new installer? I don't know.
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