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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:33:45 -0700
To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: Please test boot patch
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At 1:23 PM -0600 8/13/01, Nate Williams wrote:
>  > Please test the patch at 
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch to
>>  ensure that it works on 4.x-stable as I would like to get it in 
>>4.4 if possible.
>>  It is needed in order for many IBM machines to successfully boot 
>>off of CD's to
>>  install.  The patch is relative to /sys/boot.  To test, do the following:
>>
>>  > fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch
>>  > cd /sys/boot ; patch < ../path/to/ibm_boot.patch
>>  > make all
>>  > cd i386/boot2
>  > > disklabel -B -b ./boot2 -s ./boot2 ad0        # or whatever 
>drive you boot

Shouldn't this be boot1    ^

    disklabel -B -b ./boot1 -s ./boot2 ad0

>No go on my ThinkPad T20.  I just rebooted, and got the dreaded' Missing
>Operating System' error. :(
>
>(Where'd I stick that darn boot disk now. :)

If you followed the instructions above, I could understand why you 
got that error message. Can you retry with the above correction?

Thanks,
Mark

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