From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 18:26:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08705 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08694 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no (2602@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.131]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id DAA16735; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:25:40 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:25:39 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Graham Menhennitt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doco on installing new boot blocks (was: Is it soup yet?) References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 12 Nov 1998 03:25:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: Chuck Robey's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:16:52 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA08699 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey writes: > disklabel -B [-b boot1 [-s boot2]] disk [disktype] > > I didn't need [disktype], and boot1/boot2 are in /boot, disk is your > boot disk (mine was rda0s1a). It just worked fine, no problem, then I > was booting my elf kernel. Mind you, disklabel works with *slices*, not with partitions, so you should use rda0s1 (without the trailing 'a'). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message