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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: Booting off of the second drive
To: bynum@grep.cs.fsu.edu (Mark Bynum)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 09:28:37 -0500 (GMT-0500)
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> I then did a make in that directory, a make install, and then did a disklabel
> -B sd0. I got an error from disklabel saying that the drive was 0 revolutions
> and 0 something else, but I disregarded them because I am currently running
> from sd0.
> 
> Well after rebooting the boot program gives me an error like:
> bad boot blocks:can't find /kernel
> 
> I can still boot using "hd(1,a)/kernel" but was wondering if there was a way
> to fix the error? Did I do the above procedure correctly?

If it founds 0 revolutions it doesn't write boot. Set RPM value manually
to anything except 0 and run disklabel again.


		Serge Babkin

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