From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 5 00:45:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA19461 for current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 00:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwpeople.demon.co.uk (nwpeople.demon.co.uk [158.152.27.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19455 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 00:45:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 17:46:33 GMT From: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) Reply-To: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <15199@nwpeople.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd question.. ;-) X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 26 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message Peter Wemm writes: > On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Mark Murray wrote: > > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > How do I update the boot code to -current? :-) > [..] > > > > I do it by > > disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 sd0 > > in the /usr/mdec directory. > > OK.. that seems to be the general opinion... I wonder what went wrong > last time? :-( I recently tried disklabel -B sd0 and I can no longer boot from that drive - the kernel starts up, but it can't find root. The disk was "dangerously dedicated". Should that matter? -- Iain Baird Network People International Tel: +44 (0)1732 743591