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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Boot code corrupted - please help
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> I have just tried to install a boot code on FreeBSD 3.1.  I have tested
> successfully on FreeBSD 2.2.8:
> 
> # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot
> # make
> # make install
> # disklabel -B /dev/wd0s1
> 
> The 2.2.8 system can reboot successfully.
> 
> But for FreeBSD 3.1, I did exactly the same thing, except (this is because 
> the default boot code path changes from /usr/mdec to /boot):
> 
> # disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 -s /usr/mdec/boot2m /dev/wd0s2

Er, /usr/mdec/ is deprecated. Use the stuff in /boot/.


Doug White                               
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