From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 13 12:59:15 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 0DC3A37B412 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:59:11 -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 MAA16316; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:36 -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: <15224.11670.357011.613496@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Please test boot patch Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, Mark Peek 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 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 > > Thanks for the correction Mark. > > Using the correct syntax, I can now boot my Thinkpad fine using John's > patches. Now, how can I tell if it boots off a CD? :) That's harder. However, I just want to make sure normal booting works fine. I talked with the re at lunch today, and assuming all goes well with normal booting, I'll MFC the change in time for it to be on the RC1 CD, and then CD booting can be tested. -- 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