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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:57:55 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   diff between fdisk, boot0cfg, and disklabel -B? (was Re: recompiling boot blocks & serial console)
Message-ID:  <14740.12435.310805.691257@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> You need to recompile the bootblocks to change the baudrate; set 
> BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in /etc/make.conf, then do:
> 
> # cd /sys/boot
> # make clean cleandepend
> # make depend && make && make install
> # disklabel -B <boot device>

Good information!

Question: What is the difference between the "-B" option of disklabel, fdisk,
and boot0cfg? They seem to do the same thing from reading the man pages but
recently I was not able to use "disklabel -B" when using the "fixit"
floppy. jhb said "use boot0cfg -B". I did and it worked.

I'm just wondering why there are 3 programs with seemingly the same option and
if they are not the same, how do they differ?

Thanks,

-Jr

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