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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Re-installing bootmanager
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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.