From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 13:15:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08575 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08570 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA07492; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bosco Tsang cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto Boot from third hard disk In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970814192108.0092da00@ipoline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Bosco Tsang wrote: > >If you've installed, not upgraded, FreeBSD in the 2.2.x series. > > Just check and find that our version, coming from Walnet Creek CD-Rom, is > 2.1. Is boot.config still working? If yes, where should I place the > boot.config? I don't believe 2.1.0 didn't have this feature. In any case, you put the string in /boot.config. > If no, what else can I do? Or can I do some upgrade without reinstalling > the whole FreeBSD, as it's one of our busy servers. I believe you can just reinstall the boot block by using disklabel's b opiton. You'll have to grab the /usr/mdec directory from 2.2.2 or later, though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo