From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 09:08:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D4D37B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 09:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C32A43F93 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 09:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 45463DBA8B; Tue, 13 May 2003 18:08:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d515230CA.kabel.telenet.be [81.82.48.202]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E598DBA7F; Tue, 13 May 2003 18:08:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Guy Van Sanden To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20030512104516.GA711@gothmog.gr> References: <1052733134.8864.66.camel@horus> <20030512104516.GA711@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052842112.4021.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1tex Date: 13 May 2003 18:08:33 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-installing bootmanager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:08:35 -0000 Hi Giorgos Do I need to run bootlabel -B on the root partition additionally? Thanks Guy On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:45, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-05-12 11:52, Guy Van Sanden 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 > > - Giorgos