From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 29 02:09:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA16149 for current-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:09:57 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA16143 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:09:54 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA00163; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 11:09:37 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA29101; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 11:09:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA03864; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:34:30 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504290734.JAA03864@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: How to write -current bootcode to disk? To: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:34:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504290414.VAA00200@wsantee.oz.net> from "Wes Santee" at Apr 28, 95 09:14:13 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 565 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wes Santee wrote: > > I'm currently running the April snapshot (both kernel and binaries). > I just supped and compiled the -current kernel and all hell broke > loose when trying to mount my disks. I'm not sure if the boot code is your only problem, but you can rewrite it with disklabel -B [-b /usr/mdec/sdboot] [-s /usr/mdec/bootsd] sd0 (The bracketed terms show the defaults.) For a wd-style disk: s/sd/wd/g -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)