From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 13 12:58:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0390237B401 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA16279; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Peek Subject: Re: Please test boot patch Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, (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 On 13-Aug-01 Mark Peek wrote: > At 1:23 PM -0600 8/13/01, Nate Williams wrote: >> > 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 > > Shouldn't this be boot1 ^ > > disklabel -B -b ./boot1 -s ./boot2 ad0 Aww dang it, yes. Typo. :( -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message