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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:47:41 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting from SCSI disk...
Message-ID:  <199507190417.NAA07586@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199507190344.UAA16677@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 18, 95 08:44:52 pm

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Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying:
> Ok, I've played with the boot code, but for some reason, I can't
> write it back to disk!
> 
> I modified the signon banner so I'd know if I succeeded.
> 
> Make'ing & installing the boot code produces sdboot and bootsd.

They should end up in /usr/mdec.  You use disklabel to write them to
the disk.

> Also, there is a program named 'boot', how does this get updated?
> Just copy it from the biosboot src directory?  If this is necessary,
> why doesn't the install target do this?

Not as far as I'm aware.

>   Joe

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