From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 02:14:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA11923 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 02:14:10 -0700 Received: from prinny.pavilion.co.uk (prinny.pavilion.co.uk [193.131.160.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA11908 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 02:14:03 -0700 Received: from line0b.kemp-du.pavilion.co.uk (line0b.kemp-du.pavilion.co.uk [193.131.160.76]) by prinny.pavilion.co.uk (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA01869; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:13:21 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:13:21 +0100 Message-Id: <199507060913.KAA01869@prinny.pavilion.co.uk> X-Sender: aledm@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: aledm@pavilion.co.uk (Aled Morris) Subject: Re: Bootblocks won't take to IDE HDD X-Mailer: Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 02:12 AM 6/7/95 -0400, dennis wrote: >In trying to debug a boot problem described earlier I've found that I can't >change the boot blocks on my IDE HDD. I've done the "make install" from the >'i386/boot' directory and then a "disklabel -B wd0" but the old boot blocks >seem to remain. Running "disklabel -B fd0" seems to work ok. Any ideas? Do you get any output at all from the disklabel program? I found that if you get an error (for example regarding RPM or interleave being "0") the bootblocks are *not* written. Use "disklabel -e" and set the errant parameters to something meaningful, and you will find the problem cured. Aled -- telephone +44 973 207987