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From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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I'm sorry, I meant disklabel...

My mistake.


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2003-05-13 18:08, Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:45, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>On 2003-05-12 11:52, Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> I tried to follow some suggestions I got on this list to get my
> >>> self-made mirror-disk to boot.
> >>>
> >>> The tip was the use /stand/sysinstall - config - fdisk - disklabel and
> >>> let it install a bootmanager.
> >>> I tried to do this, however it did not write my slices to the disk.
> >>> (no errors or anything, it just didn't write it).
> >>>
> >>> I used fdisk from the console, and that worked.
> >>> However, now I don't have the disk bootable.
> >>
> >> Use the boot0cfg(8) utility to write BootEasy in the MBR of your media.
> >>
> >> 	# boot0cfg ad1
> >
> > Hi Giorgos
> > Do I need to run bootlabel -B on the root partition additionally?
> 
> What is bootlabel?  There is no bootlabel utility.  If you mean
> boot0cfg, no you don't need to run it on the partition.