Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:41:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-installing bootmanager Message-ID: <20030513184135.GA23537@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <1052842112.4021.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> References: <1052733134.8864.66.camel@horus> <20030512104516.GA711@gothmog.gr> <1052842112.4021.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
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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.
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