From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 20:29:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA23896 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley10.res.iastate.edu (friley10.res.iastate.edu [129.186.78.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23861 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley10.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley10.res.iastate.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01320; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:32:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199609280332.WAA01320@friley10.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing bootstrap code In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:21:27 -0700. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:32:19 -0500 From: "Ric Flinn" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Ric Flinn wrote: > >> I have freebsd-current installed on my 2nd SCSI drive. The install program >> failed to install any bootstrap code to the disk, so my boot manager does no t >> find any operating system. I know I could install bootstrap code by using >> disklabel -B -w disk label >> but the install program doesnt give a label for the disk in the disktab. Is >> there another way to install bootstrap code to the disk? > >Try 'auto' for the disk type. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > I tried this but also had no luck. The message I got is: disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink It acts like the label that the sysinstall gave me is quite not right. I get similar errors when i try to use a disktab entry that I created using info from the label i extract with disklabel -r sd1. Any more ideas? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ric Flinn rmf@iastate.edu