From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 13 12:24: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4222D37B403; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08840; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:23:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21995; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:23:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15224.10573.605415.546408@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:23:57 -0600 To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test boot patch In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Please test the patch at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch to > ensure that it works on 4.x-stable as I would like to get it in 4.4 if possible. > It is needed in order for many IBM machines to successfully boot off of CD's to > install. The patch is relative to /sys/boot. To test, do the following: > > > fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch > > cd /sys/boot ; patch < ../path/to/ibm_boot.patch > > make all > > cd i386/boot2 > > disklabel -B -b ./boot2 -s ./boot2 ad0 # or whatever drive you boot > > - reboot - > > If for some reason this doesn't work (it should work fine), then you will want > to boot off of a floppy or CD, then do 'disklabel -B ad0' as root to restore > the old boot blocks. No go on my ThinkPad T20. I just rebooted, and got the dreaded' Missing Operating System' error. :( (Where'd I stick that darn boot disk now. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message