From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 12:26:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.hawaii.rr.com (smtp3.hawaii.rr.com [204.210.97.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9247815550 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from art@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from taz - 24.94.75.210 by smtp3.hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1774.114.11); Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:15:28 -1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990701092609.031d31f0@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> X-Sender: art@clients1.hawaii.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:26:09 -1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" Subject: boot blocks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK you guys!! How do I rebuild the bios boot blocks? I read thru the README.serial in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot and know I need to recompile and install the new boot blocks. I altered /etc/make.conf to hardcode the serial port address for a serial console and also set the speed to 19200. I did do the make in the /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot directory however did not do the make install yet as I fear I need to do a disklabel after that to enable the blocks and don't know the correct command to use. I don't think the system will boot if I screw this up so I want to ensure I'm doing it right. Can someone detail the correct procedure? __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ Bank of Hawaii Tech Support art@hawaii.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message