From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 2 01:53:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11817 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA11811 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:53:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02906; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:52:11 GMT Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:52:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: Simon Shapiro , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) In-Reply-To: <199811012004.MAA05384@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > Please elaborate on the ``not made bootable'' part. I finished the install > > > (like I said elsewhere) and am terrified that it will not reboot (took many > > > hours to install ftp...) > > > > You need to type something like this before shutting down: > > > > # disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/rda0c > > # cp /usr/mdec/loader /boot > > You forgot to copy boot2 from/to the same location. This will lead to > a mild disaster (although you can boot the install kernel, not change > the floppy so the mfsroot.gz load fails, and it will come up using the > harddisk as root). In my locally built snapshot, boot2 has been renamed to loader so this bit worked fine. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message