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From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: "C.L. Lai [ALAN]" <clai33@uwo.ca>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:30:51PM -0500, C.L. Lai [ALAN] wrote:

> anyone know how to reinstall the bootloader?

Give sunlabel(8) a try.  If your drive is /dev/ad0 something like:

	sunlabel -B ad0

should do it.  It will expect to find the boot code in /boot/boot1,
if your machine is in a state that's not available you can specify
where to find it with -b.

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